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Meet our students :

Based at Prek Thmey, a farming area 13kms from Phnom Penh, the school currently welcomes 200 girls aged from 6 to 10 years old.

Until now, most of the girls were working in the fields to help their very poor families (average salary per family 30 USD) and rarely, if ever, went to school.

Since 7th November 2006, they have been receiving high quality bilingual teaching (English/Khmer) and doing artistic activities (art, singing, dance) in our "Happy Chandara" school from 7h30am to 5.00pm.
To make it possible to guarantee the regular attendance indispensable for quality learning, we provide a sack of rice each month to every family to make up for the one less contributor to the families' income. The rice donation is conditional on the girls' attendance in class.

Meet our teaching team

To teach and guide the children, we have a team of high-level staff present throughout the day supervised by Hoa Nguon, vice president of the association and of Cambodian nationality and lead by Anne Nguyen, who herself founded a school for refugees in New York. Both are in regular contact with Tina Kieffer, the association's president, based in Paris.

Three French teachers, Mélanie Kermoal, Marie Boucher and Laurence Dangreaux teach the classes, together with Khmer support teaching staff Mom Sarom, Nbol Sidany and Doung Leakana. Our specialised head of new technology Georges Nguyen gives the girls and introduction to information technology.

First year timetable

Each morning the girls arrive at 7.30am. They have a small meal, attend the raising of the flag and then at 8.30am the bell rings for first class. The day then follows the timetables shown below...

Monday Friday	Class 1	Class 2	Class 3	Class 4
7.30	Arrive at school
7.45	Raising the flag
8.00 9.00	Khmer	Khmer	English	Gym shower
9.00 10.00	Khmer	Khmer	Introduction to french	English
10.00 10.20	Recreation
10.30 11.30	Khmer	Khmer	Handicrafts in French	Handicrafts in French
	Lunch - rest time
13.30 14.30	Gym shower	English	Khmer	Khmer
14.30 15.30	English	Introduction to french	Khmer	Khmer
15.30 15.50	Recreation
16.00 17.00	Introduction to french	Gym shower	Khmer	Khmer

Tuesday Thursday	Classe 1	Classe 2	Classe 3	Classe 4
7.30	Arrive at school
7.45	Raising the flag
8.00 9.00	Khmer	Khmer	English	Introduction to french
9.00 10.00	Khmer	Khmer	Introduction to french	English
10.00 10.20	Recreation
10.30 11.30	Khmer	Khmer	Handicrafts in French	Handicrafts in French
	Lunch - rest time
13.30 14.30	Introduction to french	English	Khmer	Khmer
14.30 15.30	English	Introduction to french	Khmer	Khmer
15.30 15.50	Recreation
16.00 17.00	Handicrafts in French	Handicrafts in French	Khmer	Khmer

Wednesday	Class 1	Class 2	Class 3	Class 4
7.30	Arrive at school
7.45	Raising the flag
8.00 9.00	Khmer	Khmer	Singing	Danse shower
9.00 10.00	Khmer	Khmer	Danse shower	Singing
10.00 10.20	Recreation	Recreation	Recreation	Recreation
10.30 11.30	Khmer	Khmer	Artistic expression	Artistic expression
	Lunch - rest time
13.30 14.30	Singing	Danse shower
14.30 15.30	Danse shower	Singing	Khmer	Khmer
15.30 15.50	Recreation		Khmer	Khmer
16.00 17.00	Artistic expression	Artistic expression	Khmer	Khmer

Plans and photos of the school