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PEPY
AnnuAl REPoRt2010
PEPY
is an educational development organization ocusing on rural Cambodia.We believe that education is the key to sustainable change. PEPY is committed toa holistic developmental approach that empowers children, parents, teachers, andcommunities to make the positive changes they want to see in their lives.PEPY is registered as an international non-governmental organization in Cambodiaand the USA (501(c) 3 number 20-4739485). We are based in Siem Reap province innorthwestern Cambodia and our educational programs are in Chanleas Dai communein the district o Kralanh, a rural area about 65km outside the city o the town oSiem Reap.
Chanleas Dai commune is a rural area inthe district o Kralanh, about 65Koutside o Siem Reap city.
PEPY works in 11 villages in ChanleasDai commune.
There are 1700 amilies in thesevillages - approximately 10,000 people.Hal o these individuals are under 18.
Population: 14,805,358
Expenditure on education: 1.6% (%GDP)
Comparable to 5.95% and 7% in UK and US
Percentage o the population over 25 whocompleted primary school: 46%
Percentage o Cambodian children who continue romprimary school to secondary school: 34%
Percentage o literate, rural Cambodian women: 56.3%
Population: 171,800
Percentage o thepopulation living inrural areas: 93.3%
Percentage o thepopulation livingbelow the povertyline 36.6% (less than$0.45 per day)
ChAnlEAs DAisiEm REAPCAmboDiA
who wE ARE
(CAmboDiAn ContExt)
ouR mission
PEPY’s mission is to aid rural communities in improving their own standards oliving, with a ocus on increased access to quality education.
ouR REACh
For PEPY, “scaling” to reach the whole country is not our goal. That said, we do wantour work to have nationwide and even global impact. Our system or reaching morepeople through our work is not to try to take this all on ourselves. Instead, we areworking to create models, share our work and our lessons learned, and partner withother community-based projects that have the understanding and exibility to learnrom other models and tailor their oerings to local needs. We choose this approachbecause the solutions we have ound to be most successul are the ones basedmost strongly in local knowledge, leadership, and collaboration. When trying toreplicate a successul program, it is not always the solution which can be scaled, butrather the process. We believe that it is possible to have a more positive and wide-spread impact i we start with successul localized projects. Once we have createdsuccessul models, we can support others to spread their impact while keeping theprograms tailored to local needs.
PEPY’s VAluEs
PEPY invests time and resources in people, because we believe that improvingeducation, providing training, and stimulating ideas builds capacity or people tobetter solve their own problems.
Our development philosophy is based on a ew key principles:
Build capacity in people
Partner with other organizations
Share the lessons we have learned
Allow exibility in our programs
Work with local government
whAt wE Do
(2010 oVERViEw)
PEPY PRogRAms
Our educatiOnal prOgrams fOcus On fOur areas:
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literacy
Khmer classes, literacy camps, and classroom and community libraries
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partnering with schOOls
Sahakoom Apeewaht Sala (“Communities Developing Schools” or SAS
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supplemental educatiOn
Creative Learning Class (CLC), English classes, Traveling TeacherSupport program, Bike-to-School, Teacher Assistance Program
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child-tO-child prOgram
Even though we had already realized that “Schoolsdon’t teach kids. People do,” the circumstances in2009 gave us the opportunity to ocus on schoolbuildings in areas o Chanleas Dai where that was areal need. In 2010 we ocused on our commitmentto investing time in people over things. Our Child-to-Child program expanded to oer leadership camps orover 294 students during the school break. Our schoolpartnership program developed a new name and the“Saw Aw Saw” program was born. Our English andcomputer classes stopped being about English andcomputers and began to ocus on ostering criticalthinking and creative learning skills - and now thisprogram even includes an Engineering Club.2010 also saw perhaps the greatest improvement wehave seen since we rst started working in ChanleasDai: students started their own organization calledVolunteer or Community Development (VCD) and aretaking the initiative to improve their communities.With nearly 50 sta on the PEPY team by the end o2010, we recognized the importance o ormalizingour structure to preserve our organizational cultureand ocus on a positive impact. As a result, we ocusedon building more structure and systems into PEPY’swork. We researched and restructured our salary scale,created a 360° review system, expanded our capacity-building support or sta, and ormalized job roles.By investing in this new generation o educatedCambodians and connecting them with opportunitiesto continue to support the educational programs intheir community, we believe we will continue to growour impact on the quality o education available toyoung people in rural Cambodia.Read on to learn more about the programs PEPYocused on in 2010 and the lessons we have learnedalong the way.
2010 was a time o overall growthat PEPY, during which our workexpanded, ormalized, and improvedacross a range o areas.
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