Investing in education for adolescent girls in Cambodia
Investing in education for adolescent girls in Cambodia
The Cambodian Scholarship Foundation is dedicated to educating and empowering adolescent girls in Cambodia. CASF works with local communities to identify students who show motivation, merit, and need. We provide funding, training, and mentoring to lead students through secondary school to higher education, acquiring the skills they need for a sustainable future.
The Cambodian Scholarship Foundation (CASF) operates in two Cambodian provinces, Kandal and Svay Rieng. We intervene with educational opportunities for girls before high school, at the very time they often drop out or are taken out of school, and we follow them closely throughout high school, providing a local educational coordinator who works with students on a personal basis.
Once a student passes the National Exam and is accepted to a university, oversight continues, with housing in Phnom Pehn, a computer lab, mentoring, medical care, and monthly stipend and tuition provided by CASF.
For twenty years, CASF has concentrated all our efforts towards our mission, that of educating our students. We can now boast of over seventy graduates, who are working in law firms, hospitals, NGOs, businesses, and in other professions. CASF operates in Cambodia under the umbrella of local NGO Open Book Libraries.
The Cambodian Scholarship Foundation (CASF) operates in two Cambodian provinces, Kandal and Svay Rieng. We intervene with educational opportunities for girls before high school, at the very time they often drop out or are taken out of school, and we follow them closely throughout high school, providing a local educational coordinator who works with students on a personal basis.
Once a student passes the National Exam and is accepted to a university, oversight continues, with housing in Phnom Pehn, a computer lab, mentoring, medical care, and monthly stipend and tuition provided by CASF.
For twenty years, CASF has concentrated all our efforts towards our mission, that of educating our students. We can now boast of over seventy graduates, who are working in law firms, hospitals, NGOs, businesses, and in other professions. CASF operates in Cambodia under the umbrella of local NGO Open Book Libraries.
CASF students are selected based on need, merit, and motivation. We work closely with communities and our educational coordinators to choose girls who have talent and a strong will to learn, and whose education would be difficult or impossible if not for additional support.
Saroun (left) is from Svay Rieng and is studying Agriculture at the Royal University of Agriculture. She is the only one of her siblings to make it past elementary school.
Kanika (right) is a student at Royal University of Law & Economics and wants to work in human rights.
CASF Board of Directors
Mong Kimna, President
Dana Clark, Treasurer
Delanie Honda, Secretary
Catherine Cousins
Julianna Nielsen
Sharon Phelan
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Founder
Fred Lipp
CASF Board of Directors
Mong Kimna, President
Dana Clark, Treasurer
Delanie Honda, Secretary
Catherine Cousins
Julianna Nielsen
Sharon Phelan
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Founder
Fred Lipp
80% of our income comes from individual donations. Please consider supporting one of our students. Your generosity will change a life forever.
$25 will provide a scholarship stipend for one month.
$50 buys school supplies for one student for an entire school year.
$350 will provide a scholarship stipend for one student for an entire year.
$1,500 will support one university student, including housing, tuition and stipend, for one year.