The Srayang Project
The Srayang Project
The Ponheary Ly Foundation Canada (PLFC) is working alongside the PLF USA to give rural Cambodian girls and boys an education.
six of the 23 students attending school in Srayang in 2011
The boys' dorm house
An education will give these children the power and determination to help pull their families and their communities out of poverty. It will help the crucial work of giving their country a future.
Inside the dorm house
The cost to house, feed, clothe and educate each student is $875.00 per year. The return on this investment is immeasurable. $875.00 buys a Cambodian child a precious year of education. It keeps them healthy, safe, clothed, housed and fed. $72.91 per month. $2.40 per day. Every penny goes to the students – none of it goes to administration or overhead.
To see a complete budget for the project, click on: Srayang Budget.
These kids are poor – their parents are subsistence farmers in Koh Ker village, in the North. Ponheary Ly, a Cambodian national, is changing their lives — she is giving them a future.
Over the last decade Ponheary has helped to give them a primary education.
The new girls' dormitory
The PLF USA has provided meals, health care, uniforms, shoes, school supplies, bicycles.
It has subsidized teachers’ salaries, provided clean water, built a library and improved the school buildings.
The results are astonishing – the kids are dedicated, eager and determined to learn. In 2010, the student body at Koh Ker academically outperformed every other primary school in the province.
Now, the PLF Canada is helping these kids take the next crucial step. They are leaving their homes and families in Koh Ker. They are living in the nearby town of Srayang in a PLF-built house. They will attend lower secondary school (grades 7, 8 and 9).
And they need our help.
