“Toutes à l’école” works in Cambodia.
Its school, Happy Chandara, founded in 2006, provides free schooling for girls who live in peri-urban communities around Phnom-Penh.
The school includes a primary school, a junior high school, a senior high school (under construction), a vocational training centre, a boarding school and a health centre.
Mission statement: to provide assistance to children in difficulty, by participating in the establishment and development of education, school and training activities promoting the integration of girls and young women, and activities to support their families.
“Toutes à l’école” provides education to around 1000 girls, currently taking them through to the third year of junior high school (education through to the last year of senior high school is already scheduled to start) or to a choice of occupation through the professional training programmes offered by the organisation.
Every year, around a hundred girls start school at Happy Chandara.
The organisation also supports public schools by providing English and computer courses to public school children. It also provides public schools with one-off material assistance (renovating classrooms, new toilet facilities, donating school supplies).
Finally, the organisation supports the girls’ families through the regular distribution of food parcels and hygiene kits. They are regularly visited by social workers to assess their needs.
Objectives:
- To offer a high level education to the most underprivileged young girls to allow them access to a job that will give them freedom and dignity.
- To support the girls until they get their first job, whether they choose the university route or vocational training.
- To enable young Cambodian women to access occupations requiring a high level of skills.
- To help the girls’ families who live in particularly precarious conditions.
The Albatros Foundation has been supporting “Toutes à l’école” since 2015.
