Class
Bati Kampucheaʼs Kid’s Project:
The goal of this project is to support a basic living standard for orphans and vulnerable children and also to prevent children from working in dangerous assignments and in inappropriate working sites and conditions.
Objectives:
1) Provide specific life skills for orphans and vulnerable children:
Currently there are 56 impoverished children who are receiving training in sewing, embroidery, crochet, painting, dancing and music skills. The products from their skilled works will be sold in Cambodia and in foreign countries. Profits from these goods are used to support the children.
2) Moral and business training:
Along with specific skill-training, children will be instructed in business ethics and honesty in dealings with all people as well as in money management. Vision statements will be developed by all children to help set goals for their futures.
3) Stipend support:
Children who are unable to purchase study materials are provided a stipend in which to purchase study materials, fabric and school-fee monies. This stipend provides needy students who are currently enrolled in primary grades through high school. Currently there are two students who receive such stipends.
Good Kidʼs School Project:
The goal of this project is to provide necessary skills for students who have dropped out of school and to help reduce the number of students who may be thinking about dropping out. Furthermore, our goal to enhance reading skills as well as to educate all students about the overall welfare of their community including basic community-family living standards which is taught as an integral part of our overall plan.
Objective of project:
1) Organize foreign language and computer training for all students:
Currently, there are 213 students who are studying English. To sustain the project, BSDA has divided students into three fee levels depending upon family income: full fee, half fee and no fee. Up to 20% of the monies that are collected will be used to pay utility and document costs and up to 80% of funds will be used to supplement high school student-teachers’ salaries.
2) Reading enhancement:
BSDA-Takeo organized a library for community and student use at Sok An secondary school in Potsor commune, Bati district, Takeo province. Books were donated to libraries at the primary and high school levels. Books were given to individual students as well. Student peer groups were organized in order to help both student and adults learn about school projects and to provide instruction. The peer groups meet with students and the community during vacation periods. Reading classes were instituted for those interested.
3) Environmental awareness:
Climate change is a paramount concern for BSDA, therefore it has directed various environmental projects to help teach the community about the value of creating local gardens both at home and at school, and to encourage all citizens to maintain a clean and unpolluted environment.
4) Buddhist and social morality education:
The suffering that arises from the use of drugs, excessive drinking of alcohol, domestic and public violence is addressed through organized debates using the moral principles of Buddhism as a foundation for debate and discussion. A meditation project program was established by groups of Buddhist monks to help and direct high school students to enhance the ethical and moral qualities of their individual lives.
C) Social Accountability Project:
Among community members, social accountability tools are used to help raise awareness of opportunities for greater self-governance as presented through decentralization and good governance models. BSDA-Takeo had already begun to implement this project with 2,323 families in Potsor commune, Bati district, Takeo province for a period of six months beginning 19 May 2010 through 18 October 2010. By engaging local community members in human resource development and capacity enhancement, participatory planning, the Right to Information Act, Citizens’ Report Card and citizens’ dialogue with government, valuable lessons have been learned and has enhanced further involvement by local citizens within their respective communities.
Social Accountability Workshop
