On October 28th, 2018
Thank You From Our Cambodian Teens: Hope Through Higher Education
Two weeks ago, we asked for help from our community to send a cohort of 22 Cambodian teens to college. Our community came through with flying colors! As a reminder, our higher education project in Cambodia provides college scholarships to rural teens who pass the national entrance exam for university and who volunteer regularly with our community programs. In the particular rural area where LWB is working, poverty is most people’s reality. Many parents put a great deal of pressure on their children to drop out of school to work in order to make a few dollars a day to feed their families. Only 18% of children in this region graduate from high school, and less than half of those will successfully pass the college admission exam.
