Some of the college students being sponsored this year by Sharing Foundation

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Here's some background from the Sharing Foundation newsletter about these young people picture above.


The Sharing Foundation is very proud to announce that all ten of our sponsored High School seniors passed the three day High School Graduation exams in August and have now begun their Freshman year at one of several Universities in Phnom Penh !

Three young men, Kong Maneth, Sin Vuthy, and Chan Phearum also have the honor of having been admitted to the International Foreign Language school [IFL], the most prestigious University, and the only one requiring separate entrance exams. Maneth and Vuthy were accepted for the four year course; Chan Phearum was accepted for the ” bridging course”, requiring an extra year for graduation. We are very thrilled with the success of all ten students, and especially with these three, who all wish to pursue English language teaching degrees.

The other 7 students are now enrolled at Norton University. Srey Vanny, Korb Srey Poch, Phorn Vandy, and Thong Buntheng are all aiming at a degree in Hotel and Tourism management, a very practical field with such a rise in tourism in Cambodia. Chhom Thavy, Heng Panara, and Nhoung Pheasa are all enrolled for degrees in Economics, with aims of being businessmen or women.

With eight sophomores also returning to Norton University, Nancy Hendrie formally wrote requesting a discount for our NGO, and we were happy to receive 20% reduction in tuition for our whole group of fifteen students. Nevertheless, the expenses for each students will be about $1300 for each sophomore, and about $1600 for each Freshman, reflecting the need to outfit each with bed, desk, bookcases, bicycle, etc, textbooks, and new full uniforms for freshmen. We really appreciate it that several sponsors, who had been footing the $300 a year bill for high school, have now increased their support to cover their now college student. Several other groups, such a Sharing a New Song in Massachusetts [under John Watt’s organizing], our Australian High school visitors from Sydney last spring, and several birthday dedications have helped create a “gap fund” to fill in for educational expenses.

Elephant located, rented and equipped a second “dorm”, about a block from last year’s dorm, near the Russian market. While simple, it is clean and safe, with a small kitchen space, indoor bathroom and 4 bedrooms. The bad news for the boys—now 10 of them total-is that we separated the boys’ and girls’ dorms this year, so the boys must now do their own cooking and housekeeping, something the original group [mixed boys and girls] leaned on the girls to carry last year! We are thrilled with the achievements of our students—and a little afraid of our four year commitment for their educations, plus, of course, the potential for having 40 students in universities at one time, since more are coming along, but we see education as the true path out of the profound poverty of their families, and are proud to work to make it possible.