Of course, education is the basic need for country and the world development. Good education system creates good human-resources. Good human-resources create good families. Good families create good societies. Good societies create good countries, and good countries create the good world.
As I have worked for 2 months with SCC as an intern, I understand that education in Cambodia still needs a lot of helps. The government is trying very hard to make the education system get better and better, but it is still not enough and need more help from outside. It has been a very great time that I got a best opportunity to work with SCC as well as with all students, teachers, and governments officers. I do not have money to support the education system in my country, but I have my heart and my energy to work for it. I believe that if people unite each other to help, Cambodia will be more developed. If you have money, you can sponsor through your money, but if you have time, you can spend your time to work for the education, and if you have ideas, you can support by your good ideas.....
For two months intern with SCC, I got a lot of experience of education situation, communication with the community and government officer, mentoring, and team working. My responsibilities are:
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Education Awareness with students, teachers, and school support committee.
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Doing School Mapping. Analyze the data of dropping out rate, enrollment rate, and repeat rate. Find out the reasons.
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Inventory school and teaching supply. We need to communicate with schools and markets to search for supply and price.
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Select students from poor families to support in their secondary school level.
What I like the most is Education Awareness with students. I found that mentoring is one of the best ways to keep students stay in schools and make students become good citizens in the future. I enjoy talking with them and provide them some good advices. Through the Education Awareness, I have played some short stories and songs that related to education and some other things to be a good and value people. I also provided them some educational games that could make them understand the value of education. Students can enjoy playing through the activities and they absorb things that we want them to understand. I have learnt from them that, most of them do not respect in study as they do have hope that if they spend time with studying, they can get better lives than the others or not. I also found that students in towns are higher understanding in education than students in rural areas. It is the inequality, and we should save this situation immediately. For instance, grade 7 students in town can write Khmer language fluently, while students in rural areas cannot write even their village’s name. It is things that I worry the most. How we can make all students in the whole country get the same quality of education. It is what SCC is working on. This is because of lacking of teachers and resources, and people do not know about the education’s value. One way to help is to let them know the value of education!
I hope that “WE” as a world member should be apart of education development. Cambodian Children still need a lot of help from us!
Written by: Savada, SCC Intern July - September 2008
