Dear Friends and Supporters

Despite the recent ravages of Covid in Cambodia, life is getting back to normal.  And in fact this has been a great year for our Opportunity Cambodia scholarship program

Our first group of students doing Finance and Banking, and Accounting degrees have graduated.  And not only graduated, but these students have grown up, developed so much more confidence, greatly improved their English and are really wonderful young people.  They have all been working part time in jobs mostly related to their degrees so they are more than ready and qualified to gain good jobs.

We have recently had another round of scholarships that we provide for financially disadvantaged rural students – the degrees recipients are undertaking include law, midwifery, finance and banking, marketing, IT, hospitality, international relations.  Most of these degrees are four years but classes are structured to enable students to have part time jobs.

Polen – graduated from Finance and Banking and is working as an Accountant

Our first year university students stay in our Siem Reap ‘home away from home’ where they receive all the support, guidance, coaching and mentoring they might individually need to ensure they adjust to life in the city and do well in their exams.  We also provide sporting activities, visits to Cambodian cultural and historical sites, and visits to potential employees such as clinics, hospitals, tourism businesses, banks etc.  The students manage the daily life in their ‘home’,  learning to shop, cook, manage a household , manage money and time, and work in teams. As I explained in my last newsletter we enable students to move out of ‘home’ after their first or second year, and to share accommodation with fellow students.  We cover their rent and assist with food and sundries according to each student’s ability to contribute.  Their Siem Reap ‘home’, its resources and activities, are always available for them.

Soa Phorn – graduated from Law and is now working as an intern in a law department at a Child Protection Unit in Phnom Penh.
Lo Phally – graduated from a training course in travel agency operation. He then went to Israel on an internship to study agriculture. He has returned to Siem Reap  and is continuing his degree in hospitality.

I would like to thank all of you who support this wonderful program.  It is providing opportunities for financially disadvantaged, able and hardworking young people who would not otherwise be able to go to University. 

Cambodia is still one of the poorer countries in our region, and there is a critical need for professionally qualified and trained young people.

So I am really delighted to be writing to you with such a positive and encouraging report on our tertiary education program.  I am sure you will be pleased that your generosity is really making an amazing difference to the lives of these wonderful young people who will go on to make a real and much needed contribution to the social and economic development of their country.

I very much hope you will continue to support Opportunity Cambodia and its tertiary education and training scholarship program.

My thanks and best wishes to you all.

Carolyn Fletcher
Founder and Director
carfletcher.c@gmail.com

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