Can you imagine trying to learn and study without textbooks? For many students in Cambodia – at both the primary and secondary levels – textbooks are a luxury. Insufficient government funding and leakage of books into the market result in textbook shortages at schools.

SCC's sponsored students cited lack of textbooks among the contributing factors to poor school performance. Although students sometimes share books – one for every three or more students – in the classroom, they don't always have the opportunity to take books home to study.

As a result, SCC has copied 73 secondary school textbooks and loaned them out to students who are under SCC scholarship. Books were distributed at the monthly sponsored student get-together on February 15.

SCC intends to collect the books at the end of the school year for reuse in subsequent years.

SCC Project Coordinator, Jay, sorts and distributes textbooks to students:

Students collect their textbooks: