Following are a small selection of  students who have studied at our Learning Centre, have been assisted through our scholarship program, and/or have attended our Evening Classes – all of them beneficiaries of our wonderful donors and supporters.

Channet and Channa are identical twins who grew up in Chumkriel Village. Their father was a salt field worker and their mother worked in a restaurant. They attended the Chumkriel government school to Grade 9, and then went to high school in Kampot. And during this period they spent five years during their primary schooling attending the CLS Learning Centre and eight years studying English at CLS Evening School.

CLS provided Channa with a scholarship for her secondary schooling, and both girls received CLS scholarships for university in Kampot where they commenced a four year course studying English in 2023. They also commenced as part time teachers of English in that year with CLS Evening School.             

 

Sitha is an only child, raised by his mother in a small shelter in Chumkriel. As she suffered from a chronic health condition she could work only intermittently in the salt fields. Life was always a struggle.

CLS provided Sitha with a scholarship which supported him through 12 years of schooling. On leaving school he took a job at a Kampot guesthouse, working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week to earn enough to support both himself and his mother. And at this time CLS approached his mother to suggest they build her a new shelter, but she said she’d rather see the money spent on sending Sitha to university – which they did!

Sitha completed a four year university course in English before securing a teaching role at Sovannapumi Private School in Kampot. He also teaches English at CLS Evening Class.

 

Socheata was born in 2004 and grew up in Chumkriel Village, one of three children. He father was a construction worker and her mother worked in a restaurant in Kampot.

She attended the Chumkriel government school to Grade 9, then went to high school in Kampot. And during her primary years she also attended CLS Learning Centre for five years and studied English at CLS Evening Class for four years.

On completing Grade 12, Socheata received a scholarship from CLS to attend a four year English course at university in Kampot. And in 2023 she commenced working as a part time teacher for CLS at its Ang Prey Evening School.

 

Sreyka, the youngest of eight children, was born in 2003 and grew up in Chumkriel Village. Her father worked in the salt fields and her mother sold food at the Chumkriel Market, earning only a modest income to support their large family. 

Sreyka attended the CLS Learning Centre during her primary school years and as a teenager studied English for four years at the CLS Evening School. CLS awarded her a scholarship to pay her costs through primary and secondary school, and one of her brothers then assisted with her high school costs.

Sreyka was a hard worker and a high achiever at school, so she received a further scholarship from CLS to assist with university studies which she commenced in 2023. That year she also joined the CLS Evening School staff, teaching one class each week night before attending the advanced Access English class to further her own studies.

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