1. AFFORDABLE EDUCATION AND SKILLS TO YOUTH PROJECT
1. AFFORDABLE EDUCATION AND SKILLS TO
YOUTH PROJECT
BHI is a local institute that links higher education with people empowerment and community enterprise development. BHIβs mission is to provide education, development and employment opportunities for vulnerable rural youth. To assist inΒ achieving this mission, BHI established the Β βAffordable Education and Skills to Youthβ Project to support vulnerable rural youth to access higher education and get jobs, to live in dignity, and to be involved in developing their communities. BHI is being supported by AusAID through the Enterprise Challenge Fund (ECF) to implement the βAffordable Education and Skills to Youthβ Project from October 2009 to September 2012. The projectβs aim is to increase the capacity of the Institute to give more opportunity to young rural students to access specialist education, by offering scholarships, dormitory accommodation and skills training.
The Bright Hope Institute is the only institution that has been providing tertiary education services to rural Cambodians in Kampong Chhnang Province since 2006. It is offering practical degree courses in Rural Development, Agriculture, Eco-Tourism, Business Management, Accounting, Agronomy and Economics.
With a financial aid of the Enterprise Challenge Fund, the BHI was able to implement the Affordable Education and Skills to Youths project. This project included the building of new classrooms and dormitories to improve the siteβs infrastructure and to increase the institutes capacity to provide higher level education for the students in the Province. Furthermore, the funding support allows the Institute to offer partial scholarships to 100 vulnerable youths in eight rural districts every yearΒ .
The BHI Set up Three Objectives
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Increasing the capacity of the Institute to accept more students and to become self sustainable.
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Giving an opportunity to rural youths to access higher education and skills development.
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Improving the chances for a job by advancing the skills and the expertise of poor youths or to start a smallΒ community enterprise in rural areas.
The Role of ECF Funding Support
ECF funds have been used for the construction of 12 classrooms and dormitories including equipment upgrades as well as 100 scholarships annually in the initial stages. The Bright Hope Institute provided operational expenses, teachers and staff and maintenance and administration costs. The ECF funding was crucial to this project proceeding, because the BHI did not have the financial resources itself to transform it into a full time institute and also because the commercial financial backround was not available for such a project in the province.
Results: Mid Term
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The BHI has upgraded its facilities and constructed 12 new classrooms and four new dormitories.
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The BHI has provided 63 scholarships to students with all of them completing and graduating since the Instituteβs Foundation year.
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The BHI has employed two new specialists in agronomy and economy.
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The school has received full accreditation for its Foundation year course from the Accreditation Committee of Cambodia and received approval from the Ministry of Education and Sport to open the new faculty of Education Science. This accreditation and the new faculty were provided due to the improved facilities and equipment and would not have been possible without the ECF grant.
Benefits of the Project
Even though this was a relatively small project, the expected benefits were important:
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Increased employment in the institute up to 39 staff members.
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Scholarships for up to 100 disadvantaged students per year who would otherwise not have the opportunity to undertake a degree or diploma.
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Secured dormitory accommodations for 40 – 50 female students annually.
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Improved education opportunities for up to 400 full time students by September 2012.
It is also expected that the Bright Hope Institutes expanded operations will have a positive impact on the overall development of Kampong Chhnang province by increasing the pool of qualified young people.
Changes for Beneficiaries:
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The completed 12 new classrooms and four dormitories are supporting students and particularly females living in remote areas to do their studies. Currently there are 44 students (31 female and 13 male) using the dormitories.
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The Bright Hope Institute scholarships are offered to poor, rural and isolated students. Many of them are the first family members who are able to access higher education. Until now, the Bright Hope Institute has provided 63 part funded scholarships to students with all of them completing and graduating successfully since the project’s foundation year.
Broader Impacts
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The BHI is supporting local NGOβs and government departments with adult training in the subjects of Project Management, Advocacy and HIV awareness.
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The project is providing a demonstration model of the social and economic impact that a private educational institute can have in a remote area.
2. WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM
With the financial help of the German Development Cooperation of Cambodia, the BHI was able to implement a water purification system so that students have a free access to clean drinking water. This water is over-more bottled and sold at the local market by the dormitory students in order to provide a source of income to support them buying school material and food. A water purification system was installed at the Bright Hope Institute with grant funding from the German Development Cooperation of Cambodia under its Micro-scale Project. The system is operating successfully, providing treated water for the BHI students, the dormitory students as well as the staff.
Objective
The project’s objective is to provide access to safe water and to improve the sanitation at the BHI and the people around the BHI. With the availability of the the safe drinking water at the institute, studentsβ health has improved. We noted through a report that the dormitory studentsβ health problem has been reduced. There are no reports about diarrhea & water-borne disease anymore. Moreover the students don’t need to spend their time boiling water nor spending money to buy drinking water from the market.
Use of Treated Water
The water produced by the treatment plant is provided free of charge to students while they are studying at BHI. In addition, BHI students and members of the local community are able to purchase treated water in 20 liters plastic containers for 2000 Riel (0.5 USD). This compares very favorably with the typical price of 4000 Riel ( 1 USD) at the local market.
Small Business Enterprise
To ensure the long time sustainability of this project, the BHI establish a small business enterprise for a selected group of students based on the filling, sealing and marketing of small plastic bottles (e.g. 500ml) of treated water.Β The bottled water is sold at the Kampong Chhnang market. The proceeds of this small business are used by the dormitory students for paying their daily expenses such as food and school material.
The BHI plans to facilitate and support rural students to establish a water purification system in their communities and to run a social business.
3. COW BANK PROJECT
The CBP is a social and sustainable solution for families of a poor financial background so that they can cover their childβs school fee. Especially females from rural areas can profit from this project to attempt the associate program (a shorter and more affordable version of the bachelor degree). By donating a cow, the family can pay the fees with the earnings of that cow. As the BHI is constantly engaged in the rural development, one of its projects is the Cow Bank Program. The programs aim is to find donors to provide a cow for vulnerable families. Through the Β breeding of the cow, the family has an annual income and is therefore able to send one of its children to the Bright Hope Institute. As the cost of higher education is 300 USD a year, those families would not be able to send their children to proceed a tertiary education without the CBP.
Donating a cow is a much more sustainable type of donation than a financial donation is. A cow is a onetime contribution of 300-500 USD. Every year, the earnings of the cow are equivalent to this onetime donation, so the donations value is increased with every year that the family can profit from the cow. During the years of study (a bachelor degree takes four years), the complete school fee of 1200 USD can be easily be paid.
Especially females are affected when the family canβt afford to pay the school fees, as they have to help working in the household instead. This is why the BHI focuses on supporting those females from a rural and vulnerable background, for example females from widow families.
In the moment about 30 students profit from the Cow Bank Project.
Life’s already changed by the Cow Bank Program.
Miss. Srey Pov’s Story
βNo member of my family can access higher education. After my husband died, I tried to send my youngest daughter Srey Pov to school until she finished in 2012. My older daughter had to stop studying Β when my husband died, because I need her to assist me to feed our family and I couldnβt send Srey Pov to study either. I was really happy, when I got to know about the Cow Bank Project that BHI offers that allows our family to earn money and to pay for Srey Povs studies. Without this project a vulnerable family as ours has no chance to send their children to attend higher educationβ Nhek Yann (63 years old), the mother of Srey Pov Β (20 years old) tells after her family had received a cow from the CBP, donated by David Peiti and JudyΒ Peiti and with the help of the Australian Government. Miss Srey Pov is very grateful about the chance she received through the Australian donation: βI will study Rural Development. I will study really hard to use this chance that was given to me the best I canβ, she said with a big smile of hope on her face.
Miss. Kong Dalish’s Story
Another story is the one of Miss Kong Dalish, coming from a farmers family, living in around 30 km distance from Kampong Chhnang City. She was the second of four sisters and her parents couldnβt afford to pay the study fee for either of their children. She was 19 years old, when her family got donated a cow by Doug, Maria, Joshua and George Greenhalgh from Australia. This donation enabled Miss Kong Dalish to study Rural Development at the Bright Hope Institute. With the skills that she achieves through her studies, she can later contribute to the development of her own community.
After the donation, her father, Kong Kimhac (42 years old) said happily: βI promised to take very good care of the cow, because this cow allows my daughter to attend higher education. I want to thank the Australians, who supported my family and I wish that God supports them with all the best.β
4. THE STUDY LOAN PROJECT
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β- ααα½αααΆαααΆαααΆαααα ααΎααααΈαα ααααΎαααααα·ααααΆ αα αααααα α’ααΈααααΆα’ααα
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-αααα½αααΈααααΌαααααα BHI / Talents Project (CO-OPERAID)
-ααΆαααα’ααααΆαααα·ααΆ αααααα»ααααααααααα α·αααααΈααααααα’αΆααααΊααααα
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α‘α -βααΆαααα αΈ αα·αααΆαααααΎααααΆαα
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αΈ αααααΆααααααΆααααΈαααααΆαα
αααΆα αα·αα
ααα½αααα·ααΆααααΌαααΆαα
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αΈα²ααααααΌαααΉαααααα
αααααααααααα·αααΆααααααΆαααα
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α‘α‘-αα·ααΈααΌααΆαααα
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