Youth Development Leadership Program ‘Internship’ (YDLP)

The ‘Leadership Training’ Internship was successfully conducted to 37 participants of youth in Rudi Boa Center by Synoeun and Vantha on the 4-5th, 7th, and 21st of May. The purposes of the training are to empower youth with the leadership skill, providing them with new concept of self-improvement skills, applying the positive attitude and to ensure the students making a change in their lives.

They second group of YDLP is going to complete their internship by June, 2010.



‘Saing Sy’ Inauguration Ceremony



On Sunday 9th of May, we had the Saing Sy School inauguration party in Kompong Thom Province. It was awesome! There were more than eight hundreds participants including students & parents participated in our drama, traditional and hip hop dancing, games and meals from 3- 8pm.


A New Life of an orphan boy

On the inauguration Ceremony day, we found Veth, a 12 years old boy who had been living with a foster family next to the Saing Sy School after his mum was murdered by his step father 6 years ago. Unfortunately Veth had been treated like a slave in his foster family. He was extremely over-worked. He had to get up 5am every morning to do all housework including: fetching water from the well to home, washing, cooking and all other jobs. He has been suffering from malnutrition due to the insufficient of foods intake. Hence his body is covered with skin and bone and his left hand was seriously infected and full of pus. He was almost lost his hand. Fortunately he was taken by CKF staffs to the city to have his hand operated. The operation cost us approximately $US100, excluding foods, transportation and accommodation.

Veth is currently staying in ACE since he was discharged from the hospital. He refuses to go back to his foster family. We are considering of having him registered to one of the private schools in Phnom Penh.

This boy is now safe and has fully recovered. With the support of CKF, he is going to become ONE of the successful leaders in Cambodia.



Zoo Visiting

On Friday 14th, a trip of 13 ACE students and staffs to Tomao Mountain Zoo was organised as it was King’s Birthday. Everyone had so much fun by having a picnic, singing ACE and CKF songs, and enjoyed seeing wild animals.



ACE purchased the Cambodia Daily Newspaper
From now on everyone at ACE is going to have an opportunity to improve their English reading and vocabulary with the Cambodia Daily Newspaper. The newspaper is also helping them to update to the current news in the society.



ACE Study Club
A group of study has been established by ACE Team Leaders to improve their English and sharing other knowledge and experience they have learned from their university.




Selecting the ‘Nursing Scholarship’ students



On 22-23rd May, the Attitude Forum was conducted by Mr. Sokchea SAING to 20 participants who were from DDD, Saing Sy Centre and the scholarship student candidates. The main focus of this training was to select 2 nursing scholarship students for our projects. Unfortunately we haven’t found one. The re selecting process will be taken place at Saing Sy Centre in the third or fourth week of June.

ACE Staffs Evaluation
On the 30th, we have had the ACE staffs’ evaluation. The reason of this evaluation was to find out how to make ACE better and especially to improve staffs responsibility.

My Experience in Australia

Sokchea Saing visited Australia for 5 weeks from 23rd March to 2nd May, 2010 where he had a chance to meet our CKF heroes, joining CKF fundraising, participated in the Advance Leadership program and Rotary District Conference.
Upon his return, a party was celebrated to welcome him back to ACE and he also used that value time to do the presentation on his experience in Australia.

Greeting from the Attitude Centre for Education

Dear Friends,

 The Attitude Centre for Education (ACE) are specifically designed to bring about positive attitudes in Cambodia’s younger generation. We strongly believe that all the youth are capable, but lack the opportunity to achieve their dreams.

In early 2009, we had the remarkable idea of opening ACE, providing leadership training, dormitory rooms, and a scholarship program for disadvantaged students from the slums and province areas. At the same time, we decided to establish an outreach program to help the people who were evicted from Dey Krahorm by providing child care, a women’s clinic, business experience, and general family assistance.

Looking at our accomplishments, 2009 was a busy year for us. Since we established ACE, we have conducted one year of leadership training for 24 students. We also conducted two-day workshops for leadership training and the Attitude Forum 23 times for 15 NGOs and schools with 773 participants of various backgrounds, though most of them were students. With scholarship program, we have paid university fees for four students and will provide for five more students next year. There are seven students who have been staying in ACE’s dormitory, including two females with free accommodation.

We established the outreach program after realizing the needs of the people from Dey Krahorm who were evicted in late 2008. We now have four children who come to day care from Monday through Saturday. We give them breakfast and lunch every day, and in the afternoons we take them to pre-school. We have also been giving scholarships to four students from the Bording Blog. One is studying in grade 8 at Pannasastra International School. The women’s clinic has helped 11 women, from age 15 to 45, get medical treatment. There have been 505 toys taken to Australia through our Start a Business.

With leadership training and other short-term workshops, we have provided a lot of training for the students and staff members. We also allowed them to put what they learned into practice by encouraging them to join as many sessions as they could and to volunteer in our projects.

In 2010, we plan to run two more projects providing non-formal education. One is established at relocation site, Rudi Boa Center, another site 22 km from Phnom Penh, and is being managed by a student from ACE. The other one will be established in a remote area in the Kampong Thom province, Saing Sy Centre, with a program similar to the Rudi Boa Centre and also managed by a student from ACE.

I feel confident saying that through our ACE programs, the staff and students have been transforming their life, family, community, and country. We not only conduct the training for students; we also allow them to invite their parents, relatives, and friends to join our course. We first find out what they really want and then help them to make their dreams come true. So they become transformed. I know that even if these people cannot spend the rest of their lives changing Cambodia as a whole for the better, they can still change themselves, their family, friends, schools, and the communities where they work or live—all because of ACE and CKF.

Thanks always for your support to give them hope. With that, the country itself will improve because each individual we have touched becomes a better person.

Sincerely,


Sokchea SAING