By Jason R. Baron | Founder and President, The Chelly Foundation
We have wonderful news to report.
First, Sey Jakkrya, the young woman featured in our last report, did get accepted into the Harpswell Foundation program. She is one of only 20 or so high school graduates from all of Cambodia lucky enough to receive an invite this year. Jakkrya is also a Chelly Scholar, meaning we pay her tuition to university while Harpswell provides an enrichment program aimed at maximizing opportunities for success. Check out The Harpswell Foundation on-line.
Second, when we started the GlobalGiving Campaign two years ago, we aimed at receiving donations sufficient to fund two young women from Chum Kuri in 2017 and two in 2018 to be able to go to college in Phnom Penh. Thanks to our generous donors both thru GlobalGiving as well as to The Chelly Foundation directly, we were able to send 4 young women to college in 2017 and now, in 2018, have added nine additional students (six on full or partial tuition scholarships, and three on a housing stipend only). So all total, we are supporting 17 young women (and two young men) in college this semester. Our first Chelly Scholar, Manouv, graduates next Spring. More on her in a future report.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to this very worthy cause! We are together transforming educational opportunities for the children of Chum Kuri.
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