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Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA / Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands
Only $50 will cover the cost of one month’s worth of living expenses for a former street child who is attending school on a scholarship from CSK. CSK is raising funds to support 20 children who have a desire to attend school but cannot afford the associated fees and living costs. In addition to the fees charged by the schools, which CSK covers, the children must receive subsidies for lodging, food, and other small personal expenses. If CSK did not provide these items, students could not afford to live and would drop out of school and return to life on the street.
Without an opportunity to attend school, these children are exposed to serious sexual exploitation, crime, and never-ending poverty. Many of these children have a mother but few fathers are alive or present to help them. A high-school diploma will go a long way in Cambodia to help these children ultimately obtain meaningful employment and assist their families. Most importantly they achieve a sense of dignity by attending school. This is an on-going project; CSK will add participants if funding is received for all 20 of its current students for the coming academic year.