It Takes a Village: Community-based Education in Rural Cambodia

Naroth Hean and Pheat Romas's families live some 50 miles away, and the roads and transportation are too undependable to allow them the luxury of commuting to and from school every day, or even every week. "I see my family about once a month," Says Pheat, rather matter-of-factly. Borkeo is their closest option for continuing their education, and before CARE came to their village, they had no options at all.

"In Ratanakiri, only 10 percent of school-age children are actually enrolled in classes," says CARE Education Advisor and former school principal, Samal Khath. "This area is so remote, it was all but abandoned by the State education authorities, and even where schools did exist, parents, community members and even children themselves were indifferent, at best, to the importance of education."

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Photo courtesy of: Cambodia 4 Kids org