This Christmas

“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

We know that the power of education can change lives. But without it, the stark reality is that children are condemned to a never-ending cycle of desperate poverty.

Providing education is transformative in breaking the poverty cycle.

Cambodia has had a very violent and turbulent past. It is a poor nation, and the poorest are those families that live in the North East. Poverty is deeply entrenched in this area of Cambodia. And yet, it is precisely this cycle of poverty that can so easily be broken through the provision of basic schooling and education.
With your help, we can break this cycle.

Sustainable transformation requires a combination of resources, education and attitudinal change. Thats why our new Cambodian partner Ponleu Ney Kdey Sangkhum (PNKS) is implementing a suite of programs that seek to address these many challenges.

PNKS works with indigenous communities in Cambodia’s most impoverished region: the remote northeast. They report that 27% of children in the nearby communities were not enrolled in primary school. It’s hard to comprehend almost a third of eligible children are not receiving an education.

It is hard not to compare, but when our children and grandchildren live in a world of plenty, how can other children dream of simply having a book and the ability to learn?
This situation does not have to be like this.

With your help, we can provide libraries in schools, helping children to read, discover the world beyond their village, dream of a better future and see their God-given potential flourish.

I am so thankful to you for being part of the AOA community. You choose not to walk past our global neighbours living in poverty.