Girls Be Ambitious

A program that enables girls who are unable to go to school due conditions of poverty to attend one of our rural schools and receive an education instead of having to work in the fields, do chores at home or take care of siblings.

Kon Sreyuoy

Kon Sreyuoy is 11 years old, a student in grade 3 at The Mr. and Mrs. Sak Nhep School and she is living in Chorng Ra Village, Batang Commune, Lumphat District, Ratanakiri Province.

Sreyuoy is the third child in the family with two older brothers and one little brother. Her father is a worker he works for a private rubber farm and he has got one home in rubber farm. He earns about $150 per month. And her mother is a housewife she works at home and looks after her little son.

Sreyuoy is a very hard working girl and a good student everyone at school knows her well because she is good on many subjects and she always goes to school by walking for about one kilometer to school.  After school she helps her mother to cook and she sometimes finds an initial job near her home such as picking up cashew fruits and she helps her father in private rubber farm to gather rubber to earn money to support her family as well.

In the future she wants to be a doctor because she wants to help all the people in her village, she found the hospital is so far from her village.

 

Dated: May 2019