A New Soccer Field Leads to Higher Goals in Cambodia
Our Moms Against Poverty (MAP) team in Cambodia recently inaugurated a new soccer field at our school. Sports, especially soccer, play an important role in the education of our children and pave the way for impoverished students to more easily assimilate into MAP’s education program. Unfortunately, poverty cruelly impacts children’s lives in Cambodia, leading to […]
How Our Team Keeps Students From Dropping Out of School in Cambodia
The continuous spread of Covid-19, in addition to alarmingly high rates of infection and death, has forced the closure of schools nationwide, both public and private. School closures and the extent of Covid-19 has had a profound effect on the education of Cambodian children, mainly those who are underprivileged, in almost every area across the […]
28 New Laptops: Game Changer for Our Cambodia School
It is with great excitement that MAP Cambodia was able to recently purchase 28 new laptops for our students! Since the creation of the MAP Cambodia School in 2014, the basics of computer knowledge like Microsoft Word, Excel, and Photoshop have been a part of the curriculum we have been teaching our students. Essentially, our […]
Music Wellness Program At A New Level
Developed and undertaken by the Moms Against Poverty in Cambodia, the “Music Wellness Workshop” program, reinvents the meaning of social work by engaging struggling teens in therapeutic, creative interests. Often due to the high cost of the equipment and private instructions, in third world or developing countries pursuing creative arts such as: music, painting, videography […]
A New Teacher for MAP Cambodia School!
Sok Ry, a MAP Cambodia student since 2012 Located in the small village of Prek Lvea, one hour distance from Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, finding good teachers for MAP’s Cambodia school comes along with many challenges. Teachers who commute from Phnom Penh have quite a journey, in which they must take the ferry that crosses […]
MAP Cambodia A Look into 2021
2020 was a difficult year for everyone due to the pandemic, but thankfully MAP Cambodia ended the year with exciting news from our Media Academy. For the first time, two of our students passed their high school exam! Socheata and Sakada have been under MAPC’s care for many years. Interestingly enough, Sakada was the first […]
Moms Against Poverty Cambodia (MAPC) A Year in Review – 2020
2020 at Moms Against Poverty Cambodia (MAPC) started with the opening of the MAPC Media Academy. Fueled by the success of MAP home-grown bands like DOCH CHKAE with their 2019 Wacken Open Air music festival performance in Germany, and Vartey Ganiva with her regular TV appearances on national Cambodian TV channels, MAP decided to launch […]
Empowering Young Women in Rural Cambodia
The story of Theary Chhin – From volunteering to employment Theary Chhin was born in 2002 in the village of Toul Meas in the Lavea Em district, a neighboring region of Phnom Penh city, Cambodia. She comes from a low-income, problematic family. Her father is a construction worker in the village but is also an […]
Promoting Literacy in Cambodia – The MAP Cambodia Media Academy
Motivating kids and teenagers to study is by itself, one the big challenges that this wonderful world provides for all the teachers and parents around the globe. Caring and motivated parents work hard around this issue. But children who grow up households that do not support education leaves teachers confronted with a genuine Gordian knot. […]
MAP Cambodia’s Preschool & Day School in the time of COVID-19
In 2017, when MAP’s orphanage in Cambodia transitioned into a foster based care and school, there were still children that needed our help and support during the day. For this reason, we added Pre-school and Day School programs at our center. This program offered a reprieve for especially single mothers whose relatives do not live […]
