Eighteen kilometers outside of Siem Reap, on a flooded field stands two thatched roofs, serving as make-shift classrooms, butted up against a concrete block of 5 additional rooms.  This is Phoum Stung Primary School, a school which provides education to over 500 students from four neighboring villages.  Phoum Stung has a shortage of space and cannot accommodate all of the students who would like to study here.  The school's six teachers work double-shift, spending eight hours per day on their feet in front of a class.  The flooded school grounds present health risks and certainly are not an ideal playground.  And, community leaders and villagers worry about the futures of their children, as many are forced to drop out of school to support the basic needs of their poor families.

In mid-September, SCC met with community leaders, school staff, students and villagers to better understand the community's education-related problems and to announce that Phoum Stung would come under SCC adoption in October.  Under SCC support, the charity and community will work together to address the school's issues and improve the access and quality of education.  The Phoum Stung community is eager to get started and even in our initial meeting, started drawing plans for a school grounds drainage system in the dirt.  The school staff is equally happy, as SCC's teacher salary supplementation program will enable them to earn living wages for their work.  SCC's adoption of Phoum Stung brings the number of SCC-supported schools in Siem Reap province to five.