Cambodia is a developing country that is still on the road of recovery from its years of turmoil from wars and merciless killings. It was not that long ago that an entire generation was nearly wiped out from senseless killing and massacre. And a new generation now is deprived of proper nurturing and care. Education is the means to bring this generation out of poverty and give them hope.

Children in Cambodia have many barriers standing between them and a good education. Poverty is one problem, but so is a lack of education spending by the Government. Of Cambodia's 15 million people, half are under 22 – and so there is a large school age population. Education statistics are still poor by world standards. According to UNESCO, 1.6% of Cambodia's GDP is allotted to Education. This ranked 170th in the world as western countries spend around 5.5% to 6.4% on education.

The Cambodian Government needs and looks to foreign help in many areas of its development. And in education, NGOs and external foreign investments are gravely needed to spearhead the development of this young and struggling nation. In 2015, the Cambodian Government recorded 57,0000 out-of-school children in the country.

Wisdom Nest School is one key project to do that in Baray.

Wisdom Nest School aims to provide quality formal education to children of the Baray District of Kampong Thom Province. In doing so, it will meet the UN's Convention on the basic rights of every child to education and assist the Cambodian Government efforts to get out-of-school children back to the classrooms.

Long Term Benefits

• Open up accessibility to disadvantage children in rural villages of Cambodia to quality 
education.
• Free a generation from poverty through quality education.
• Parent and community involvement in the education of their children and the running of the school.
• A Legacy of a quality school for posterity and for the future generations as well.
  

Immediate Benefit

Setup Phases

24 classrooms – Grade 1 to 12.
To be built in 3 phases
Time frame – 2015-2020

Phase 1 – Primary School Block :  USD500,000
Phase 2 – Admin Block :  USD350,000
Phase 3 – Secondary School Block and Assembly Hall :  USD450,000

US$1 a day for a child's education for a year