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.

To Be Selected

Voeurn Menea is 12 years old, she lives in Tropeang Chroneang village, Chrolorng Commune, Baray district, Kampong Thom Province. She is in the 5th grade at Tuol Andet Primary School, located in Tropeng Chroneang Village, Chrolorng Commune, Baray District, Kampong Thom Province.

Menea is a single child in the family. Her moher’s name is Neang Sophea and her father divorced with her mother and has another wife, since she was a baby. Nowadays her mother does not have her own house and farmland. They are living with the grandparents’ house. Her mother had a diseased in her life. They are living with nine members in the family. Her mother cannot work and find any money to support the family. Nowadays, her uncles and aunts support her. They are living with the income day by day that her uncles and aunts can support. Every day Menea’s mother very difficult to live, because of her desease.

Menea wants to be a doctor. She wants to cure her mother and all the people in her community, and she hopes to get some money to support her family.

Date posted: April, 2018