Dear Friends and Family,

I hope that you had a very lovely Christmas and a happy New Year celebration!

The year 2011 has just started but we would never forget 2010, which Rudi Boa Center brought so much change to the students, family and community at the relocation site Peace II. Initially, we started with only 3 staffs and 60 students, for classes in January but after one year of operation we're so impressed of our accomplishment and growth. We have the increase from 3 to 6 staffs, from 60 to 258 students and 11 classes. Also we have 8 Khmer regular team leaders and also volunteers from Peace II and 11 short time volunteers from United World College, Australia, USA and other countries around the world.

Our students are age between 5 to 20 years old studying English from the basic level to the Pre - Intermediate level. There were 8 health trainings which were conducted by the professional health trainer Phana and three medical teams, Nary, Sophea and Put Sak from Cambodian Kids Foundation on Reproductive Health and Condom, Medicine usage, Dengue Fever and Diarrhea. They also conducted another 11 trainings to women group from Peace II including First Aid, Birth Control, Nutrition, Fever and rehydrate solution.

We have the amazing team leaders at Rudi Boa who have been volunteering and assisting in different activities of Rudi Boa Centre. We also conducted 11 trainings to the 185 youths at Rudi Boa Centre on Positive Attitude, Life Plan, Leadership Development Skill, Youth Survivor Challenge, Field Trip, Wedding Law, Criminal Law, Learning Habit and Technique, and Domestic Violence. The training were conducted by the staffs and the students from ACE. Thanks ACE! We always request the outstanding students from the training to join the team leaders so that they could make a change to get more involve with the school activities and community. So far there are five former team leaders who have become staffs at Rudi Boa and others are volunteering and assisting in the computer class, Khmer; English classes, sport, art, health and hygiene.

Our young staffs have remarkable improved since they have an opportunity to join numerous trainings on Classroom Management, Child Right, Child Protection, Interactive Teaching Methodologies, Effective School Management, Positive Attitude which are provided by Bridge Across Border Cambodia, Cambodian Kids Foundation and Attitude Centre for Education.

Rudi Boa is not just a building, or a school that provide some important need to the children and youths at Peace II however it has also become a safe place to prevent the children and young adults from moving to the city in order to become: shoes brusher, beggar, gangster, using drugs, robber, selling flower and foods on the edge of the roads, street children and importantly avoid from going into prostitution. Instead many of them are working hard, studying hard and are preparing goals for their brilliant future. The families are not forcing their kids to find the money for them; instead they are working hard to send their children to school because they believe that Education will bring a very positive change in their family.

We, especially the victims of the eviction will never and ever forget the day that they were suffered because of the eviction in the late 2009 from Dey Krahorm and also the sand filing on the Boeung Kak lake. Thousand families were fiercely forced to move out from their houses and started a new life at the relocation site Peace II. However the families have now understood that the company could evict the people from their land but they couldn't evict the knowledge from the people! Stop Eviction! Sent the Children to School!

Apart from Rudi Boa centre, The Attitude Centre for Education (ACE) has also made many accomplishments in the year 2010. Our young and ambitious ACE's scholarship residents have so much opportunity to grow through our dormitory scholarship program, university scholarship program and training program. We offer them the free dormitory to live, provide them the best leadership and positive attitude trainings. They are also provided a valuable opportunities to volunteering and assisting in ACE project, Rudi Boa Centre. Many of them have reach their goals in such a short period of time by becoming project manager, accountant, project officer, project facilitator and others are volunteering and assisting in other ACE activities.

Without ACE these students probably would be working as the builders, farmers, married, working in the garment factory or would have return back to their homeland without job and experience. Instead they have gain so much experience in self-confidence, have a strong personality, strong in communication skill, have a clear goal and especially they can bring back what they've learnt from ACE to their friends, family and community.

In 2010, we conducted 24 trainings to 475 people and 125 of these participants who benefited from our trainings were females. Our trainings focus on: Positive Attitude, Leadership, Child protection, NGOs management. According to our survey, 57.14% of the participants are the poor students from the slum; remote communities; 14.48% NGOs staffs; 21.42% farmers and 7.14% others.

All of the accomplishments at Rudi Boa Centre and Attitude Centre for Education couldn't have happened without the hard work and support from all the Cambodian Kids Foundation, Bridge Across Border Cambodia staffs and our friends around the globe! You are not working in front of us but you’re working with us, you transform us so that we could transform other people . We deeply appreciate your support and very proud of the accomplishments that we have done for the year 2010! We are ready for more new accomplishments in the year 2011! But we also strongly believe that we cannot make more accomplishments without more support from you.

Happy New Year!

Sokchea SAING,