College Scholarships for Young Women in Cambodia

Greetings to all friends and donors:  I am pleased to report that construction is underway of a new primary school building, which when completed will afford 250+ 1st through 5th graders to learn in five brand-new classrooms.  Their old wooden school building was condemned in the past year, and there were no funds coming from the provincial authorities to build a new structure -- so The Chelly Foundation stepped in.  The primary school students who will take classes in this school will go on to high school, and some might one day be eligible for scholarships from The Chelly Foundation.  It is a dream for both them and for us.

Meanwhile, most of our Chelly Scholars are back in classrooms at their respective universities.  We are expecting that at least five or more young women will graduate by the end of calendar 2022.  Overall, to date we have supported 27 young people, including 24 young women, altogether, mostly with full scholarships.  The contributions made through GlobalGiving have been of tremendous help in ensuring that we have reached our goals.

In my last report, I mentioned that we have two new Chelly Scholars -- Sreytey, and Sreyneat (pictured here).  I would like to provide excerpts from a letter from Sreyneat:

From Sreyneat:

First of all, I would like to thank The Chelly Foundation for your support of my education in Cambodia through the provide of a scholarship.  Your scholarship really help a lot of students when they finish to study at high school and want to continue at university but we don't have that possibility.... scholarships are useless to the rich but very useful to the poor.... I couldn't continue my study in a very good college like Australian Centre for Education for English skils if I didnt get a scholarship from The Chelly Foundation.  My mother is old and has a lot of responsibilities but now I can make my best future by studing hard and I promise not to disappoint my family and the Foundation.  So I want to say your help really makes me and my family exxcited and I want to remember your kindness in heart.

So finally, I really want to thank you ... thanks again and again.  I wish you happiness, well-being, safety and good health.  Also, please let the fund grow and continue to help forever.

Thanks to GlobalGiving and all of the donations we have received, Sreytey is now studying at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and Sreyneat (the letter writer above) is studing at the Australian Centre for Education (where classes are conducted all in English).  

We wish them all the best, as we do for all of our Chelly Scholars.

Thank you to all who have supported our charity.  We continue to make dreams come true in faraway poor villages in Cambodia.

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Links:

• http://www.thechellyfoundation.org
• http://www.facebook.com/thechellyfoundation