June 2016 Newsletter

June 2016 Newsletter
Salariin Kampuchea
Collaboration  Respect  Responsibility  Integrity. Community
6 Months at a Glance
January
February
March
April
May
June
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Life skills students visit a hotel
Giant puppet workshop
Staff appraisal
Certificate test development
Giant puppet parade night
Cooking class & field visit
Founder visit
Website improvement
Life skills final trip & graduation
Football final league
Khmer New Year party
Unique donor on GlobalGiving
Board meeting
Website redesign
Director visited Ireland
Staff recruitment & selection
Farewell party & new teacher
Fundraising campaign on GG
GlobalGiving visit.
Celebrations & Achievements
Certificate Test for English Classes
Congratulations to the students from the English program who
graduated from the English books - Let’s Go 6 and New Headway PreIntermediate. We are so proud to see them graduate and wish them
good luck for all they do in the future.
Khmer New Year Party Celebration
In April, students, staff, and volunteers celebrated Khmer New Year
party before we had a break for the New Year holiday. We had a lot
of fun with traditional games, dances and sharing a meal together.
Certificate Test Standard Development
Together our English teachers and educational volunteer coordinator
worked to standardize the SK certificate and placement tests. It is
now much easier to measure the ability of students graduating from
their level and to access new students wanting to come to Salariin
Kampuchea. We really appreciate their effort.
Life Skill Final Trip and Graduation
In February, the fourth generation of students from the life skill
program successfully graduated from their one year course. To
congratulate the students for their work hard, we journeyed to
the historical national park, Phnom Kulen. The students were
delighted and participated in team building exercises.
Partnership with DPETNS
For three weeks in June and May, our director, Ravy Vang
visited Ireland in an exchanged program hosted and sponsored
by Donabate Portrane Education Together National School
(DPETNS) (http://www.dpetns.ie/). Both organizations
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learned wonderful lessons and we are excited for the future
opportunities with DPETNS.
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School News
Life Skill Students Visit a Hotel
& Vocational Training Center
In January and February life
skills students visited Le
Meridien Hotel
(www.lemeridienangkor.com)
and Regional Polytechnic
Institute Techo Sen Siem Reap.
These opportunities enable them
to see the realities of working in
a hotel and technical industries,
and guide them to a potential
future career. We are very
grateful to our partner
organizations for helping expose
our students to worthwhile
possibilities.
Partnership for Exchange
Starting on May 14th, our
Director spends three weeks in
Ireland to learn about the Irish
educational system and in turn
taught DPETNS about projects at
Salariin Kampuchea and Khmer
Culture.
Cooking Class
In February, Sol, a former
student shared her advance
cooking abilities to teach our life
skills students how to make the
traditional Khmer dish, Amok.
Sol and our students made a
chicken Amok during the lesson
which was greatly enjoyed by all.
Thanks to HOPE & the
organizers who made it happen.
Over 30 students participated in
the puppet workshop from
January 25th -26th. They made a
white duck. A parade was held
the night of February 6th and
more than 60 students enjoyed
attending it.
Founder Visit
We welcomed our founder Katrin
back to our school. SK and Katrin
shared ideas about the school’s
future and how to support the
school’s endeavors to provide
quality education.
Giant Puppet Project
Football League
After four month of tournament,
our students took part in the final
league organized by Globalteer
Junior Soccer league. There
are 3 teams, an under 16
boys team and an under 18
girls and boys team). They
had fun and improved their
play.
First SK’s Board Meeting
SK board of directors held
their first meeting in April
this year, to discuss about
SK’s future and direction for
new growth.
New Life Skill Classes
After the 4th Generation of
Life skill students graduated,
we recruited new students
for the fifth generation of Life
Skill Classes. The two new
classes began in February.
Staff Farewell Party
In June, we had a farewell
party for our teacher, Mr. Tep
for his last day with school
and we welcomed Mr. Siyan
to our team.
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June 2016 Newsletter
Changes
Human Resource
We welcome our new English teacher, Mr. Siyan to our
team here at SK as our previous English teacher, Morn
Tep resigned. We wish him happiness and success
Redesign Website
Through support from a web developer, our current website was
redesigned to look more professional and attractive to
public and supporters. Thanks to our web boards.
Volunteers
Welcome, and thanks to the volunteers, Krystal, Georgia, Linda, Myrthe,
Catalina, David, Peter, Frank, Arnold, Marijke, Stephanie, and Gradey who
worked with our staff this past 6 months to improve our school.
Building Communication with Partners and Donors
Salariin Kampuchea works to
collaborate with our partners
and donors, to improve our
services and communication as
much as possible. For the last six
months,
we
have
been
particularly busy:
- With financial support from
Diakam, we worked with Women
Resource Center who offered
workshops to the Chreav
community.
- We are very grateful for our
founder, and a representative
from Switzerland Association
came to visit our school and
discussed support for the school.
We took this opportunity to see
other NGOs in Chreav commune.
- We formed a new partnership
with
Regional
Polytechnic
Institute Techo Sen Siem Reap.
As a result; our life skills
students were able to visit the
institute to explore different
career opportunities.
- We maintained our partnership
with a hotel Le Meridien Angkor,
and sent the fourth generation of
life skills students to visit the
hotel and poster their career
aspirations.
- We established a working
relationship with DPETNS and
sent our director to Ireland to
learn more about other education
systems.
- We thank very much to HOPE
for their continued support to
our young adult program.
- We are very thankful to
individuals donors including
Andrew, Gradey and her family
and Jorn for their continue
support of SK.
- We appreciate our continued
partnership with ConCERT and
Cambodian Volunteer
Foundation and are delighted to
form a new relationship with
Cambodia Rural School Trust
Organization. These
organizations place volunteers at
SK for work placement and
internship.
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Staff Development and Training
SK has provided multiple opportunities for staff to participate in training and capacity building sessions
over the past 6 months:
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From the beginning of this year, our volunteer educational coordinator, Marijke worked together
with our team to improve our quality of education. This included setting new library goal,
updating teacher guides and developing our certificate test. We appreciate her hard work.
Our volunteers, Peter, Cyrill and Arnold provided technical support by updating the new website
and completed various computer projects.
Georgia, one of our volunteers, is currently providing teacher training. Krystal, another volunteer,
supports her by formatting training resources. They are also both helping with fundraising and
improving communication.
Our new teacher, Mr. Siyan is oriented to work conditions, and regulations.
We conduct staff appraisal to our staff for their yearly work performance and finding their
Football
After football training for three months, our football teams again participate in the Siem Reap Junior
Soccer League with other teams from local and international NGOs. SK had enough students interested to
form three teams. Many thanks to our supporters for their donations. Our students are continuing to play
fantastically, we can see their confidence growing and they show real team spirit.
Global Giving
In June, we participated in Bonus Day-Online Fundraising with Global
Giving to find more donations through online fundraising. We continue to
raise for 10 unique donor campaign with Catalina, our board for the
organization through this partner. We maintain our fundraising campaigns to
support our, “Enhance 200 Cambodians’ Lives through Education” and “Support Sexual
Education for Young Cambodians” projects. Funds are intended for use across all of our educational
programmes within the organization. We would appreciate you taking the time to have a look at our
page here, and to share it with your friends, colleagues, and family. It is a safe, secure way to give to
Salariin Kampuchea.
www.salariinkampuchea.org
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