Our History

Months after we incorporated, we started sending progress reports in the Spring and Fall to our contributors. They give a detailed history of our work. We have summarized each one below; if you want to read the progress report itself, please click on the photo or text for the year.

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

03/01/2018

We began supporting a new school, Sam Bou, in Siem Reap province. Thanks to a generous grant from IBM we planted organic gardens at four of our schools. Students at Edgewood College raised $2,000 to buy property for garden plots and fish farming next to our school in Poum Steung.
Spring 2017

03/01/2017

We funded pipes to irrigate gardens at four of our grade schools and paid for equipment and building improvements at five others. JHP students took a field trip to Siem Reap to explore career opportunities and held a party to celebrate our 100% graduation rate in 2016.
Fall 2016

10/01/2016

The drought ended, and wells were again full. We helped three American donors to build a school in Sambour. We have seen how our funding process creates a culture of hope in our schools. We shared our 5th year homecoming party at JHP, celebrating having placed every JHP student we have graduated in our first 5 years.
Fall 2015

10/01/2015

We mourned the death of our Poum Steung principal, Thai. We helped the schools we have built and the two we support to remain in good shape, funding projects for gates, storage cabinets, doors, a roof and paint. Kok T’mai became our third elementary school with a garden.
Spring 2015

03/01/2015

All of our elementary schools now had playgrounds with smooth surfaces, and fences to keep out wandering water buffaloes. We helped pay for electricity at our Srai Pou school. We bought new English books and software for JHP and the students are learning more English. We hired two JHP graduates as teaching assistants.
Spring 2014

03/01/2014

Our dedicated teachers, most of whom have been with us for years, came together for a meeting Our JHP organic garden continued to improve and we began growing chickens and fish for protein. We made plans to build a women’s dorm, freeing up space for a dedicated English classroom.

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01 Oct, 2018

Fall 2018

If you‘ve been a donor for a while you know that our progress reports have a rhythm to them: we report that we succeeded in our annual mission of aiding seven grade schools to improve their buildings and grounds. We supported teachers with a bonus, provided uniforms and supplies to each student, and distributed bicycles to high school students with long commutes. All the graduates from our technical school were—again—placed in jobs, and employers continue to seek them out. We share with you

Our History

Spring 2018

Spring 2017

Fall 2016

Fall 2015

Spring 2015

Spring 2014