As we celebrated World Children’s Day earlier this month on 20 November 2021, we would also like to applaud the commitment and perseverance of those who play an important role in ensuring children’s rights. In developing countries like Cambodia, teachers in remote communities double down on their effort to ensure their young students’ access to […]
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Cambodia: The journey to becoming an award-winning teacher
In the rural village of Trea, located in Cambodia’s southeastern Kandal province, secondary school remained out of reach for many girls when Ros Daline was a young student. Daline dropped out of school after her primary education and began working at a garment factory to help support her family. Being the eldest of the family […]
Junior Magazine: Education in time of crisis
At Aide et Action, we believe in the power of education to raise awareness among young people, to free them from prejudices and to prepare them to live together in tolerance. Education is key to leading younger generations towards peaceful citizenship and solidarity. Holding this belief, we developed our junior magazine from 2015 to 2018 to contribute towards […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Rethinking education after the coronavirus crisis
Around the world, education that teaches, enlightens, liberates and works for a better world has become a target of extremist and obscurantist attacks. This, coupled with the threat that COVID-19 also poses to education, jeopardizes the future of a whole generation, and it is more urgent than ever to remain mobilized in order to defend […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Learning starts at birth
For 40 years Aide et Action has been committed to ensuringquality education for all. We have made early childhood one of our priority areas of intervention as early childhood care and education lay the foundations of lifelong learning and well-being. This component is an integral part of basic education and is a right for all […]
Cambodia: 40 years after the genocide, Mom demonstrates the power of education to make a difference
On this International Women’s Day, we would like to share the story of Phou Mom, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, who has spent the past 40 years advocating education as a tool for rebuilding Cambodian society. In Cambodia, under the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), many intellectuals were murdered and around 90% of the […]
Cambodia: Preschool teacher dreams of all students being able to complete secondary education
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the commitment of some of the women we work with across Southeast Asia who are uplifting communities such as Hem Srey Oun, a preschool teacher in Cambodia. Srey Oun was the first in her family to finish Grade 12 and is soon set to finish a degree in […]
Vietnam: New coronavirus impacts education
4 March 2020, Hanoi, Vietnam: Despite no new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Vietnam since 13 February 2020, Vietnamese schools remain shut as the government continues to implement a series of measures. Here, at Aide et Action, we are working closely with schools in impacted areas to ensure the interests of the […]