Children Village(SOS)

Business Overview

Mondol III , Slorkram, Siem Reap-Angkor, Cambodia

The study result and teaching activities have made a good year and satisfactorily during the annual meeting presentation. Of the 96 students in senior high school, all except three getting excellent and very good mark this year, and makes our SOS School one of the most 5 best and popular in the provincial town. Other 66 get good marks and 6 are placed in fairs marks.

Overview of SOS Schools, Siem Reap

Our nursery school classes located inside the SOS school grounds and consists of 3 levels serving for 108 student population from SOS Children’s Village Siem Reap and children from the local community. In addition to children’s nutrition, one meal allowance is organised and offer to all pupils in studying hours. Also, there is called hygiene project where children can have bathing and cleaning themselves while resting from the class with taking care and watchful by our teachers. This is to contribute in the awareness of personal hygiene and parental skills to target beneficiaries especially the vulnerable families.

Self-discipline, morality, good attitude and study results of children, wide spreading the information to all communities and our nursery school very well known and recognised, causing much more parent included their children’s name in the waiting list for the next school academic year of 2009. We are planning to diversify of teaching material, IEC materials (Information, Education & Communication) as well as playing material for children in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our nursery school program study. A play ground also plan for renovation as degraded by daily using, refilling the soil and replanting of flowers and decoration shrubs.

SOS Primary and Secondary School Angkor-Siem Reap

The combined SOS Primary ands Secondary School was opened in 2002. There are over 420 children enrolled, 210 in both the primary and secondary schools taught by 28 teachers.

In the SOS School at Siem Reap, the first ever created in Cambodia just serving for only primary and junior high school level, but till now, this school is full function all grades from primary to secondary (Junior & Senior) with total student population of 533 included 236 girls.

The school provides scholarship of 20% to children from the very vulnerable family who can’t afford their children to school, and the result are proving to be very successful with keeping continuation of this activities for the forthcoming year. It is a school policy, teacher not only follow up student at school, but also go down to the family based to follow on the irregularity occurred to those scholarship children. For a meantime, the possibility of study will be carried out this year to upgrade this scholarship to full Family Strengthening Programme, after the result of need assessment and approval from the SOS Continental Office.

A number of events have been organised in the course of the year to vital the functioning of school activities, these included the parental & community discussion with the school principal related to the study results, expectancy of them and constraint resolution, academic opening and ending, awarding ceremony to the outstanding student. etc. 2 teachers are undergoing to participating with ministry of education in the topic of examinations process, and other 6 participating in the seminar on developing the methodological practices in teaching.

Annually, the school had inspected by the inspection department from ministry of education and sport regarding to the quality of teaching provision, educational system and administration, this proved to be very successful and enable our teacher and principal further develop their opportunities and weakness point. Technical teams are created for each level of primary and secondary in the sense of managing the student selection, methodology, session plan, study material, examinations and disciplinary. Etc. At the end of the school year, teachers organised their excursion with the students.

Other SOS Projects in Angkor-Siem Reap

There is also an SOS Nursery and an SOS School. The SOS Nursery consists of six classrooms where up to 200 children can be taught, while the school has twelve classrooms, laboratories, a library and a canteen. The school provides primary and secondary education to a maximum of 500 pupils. Both the nursery and school are open to children from the neighbourhood.

An SOS Youth Home was opened in 2005. Older boys from the SOS Children's Village normally move to the SOS Youth Home when they start a vocational training course or go on to higher education. With the support of qualified youth workers, they develop realistic perspectives for their future, learn to shoulder responsibility and increasingly make their own decisions. They are encouraged to develop team spirit and build up contacts with relatives and friends, as well as with the relevant authorities and potential employers.

The SOS Vocational Training Centre, which was opened in September 2004, specialises in crafts and provides training to up to 45 youngsters in its four workshops (electrical training, plumbing, carpentry and mechanics). Through the SOS Vocational Training Centres, SOS Children's Villages is trying to offer the youths fair starting possibilities so that they can become independent and so that they are able to cope with the social and economic demands made on them.