Focus Cambodia is committed to improving access to high school education for teenage girls living in Kampot, a rural province in southern Cambodia.

Foxglove partners with Focus Human Resource, a local NGO led by a husband and wife team, born and raised in local villages. After many years working with international NGOs in Phnom Penh, they returned to their rural communities to address grassroots needs that continue to impact the living conditions and opportunities for those living in poverty in rural Cambodia.

 

Poor sanitation in Cambodia is commonplace with up to 80% people living in rural Cambodia having no access to toilets or clean water. But it has a particular impact on teenage girls attending public school. Over the next 3 years, we plan to build toilet blocks, provide clean water points and facilitate health and hygiene training for 6 secondary schools in partnership with provincial and local school authorities. It is part of the project agreement that schools and communities provide a plan and commitment for the ongoing maintenance of project infrastructure and training of the students in health and hygiene. Secondly, we work with the schools and community leaders to highlight the opportunities that come with higher education. An opportunity that is overwhelmingly denied to young women. Without community consultation and education, the incidence of girls as young as 14 years old working long days in the rice fields or entering the expanding garment factories will continue to grow.

 

Foxglove works in partnership with schools that believe in the capacity of women and girls to contribute and bring about change in their communities.

She makes her future.

 

Download the Focus Cambodia Impact Report 2019