CASF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is committed to improving the lives of children in Cambodia through education, especially poor and at-risk girls who are, for a number of reasons, often denied equal access to schooling. CASF collaborates with local communities to identify potential students, provides financial, emotional and medical support to these students and their families, and sustains this support for as long as the child wants to learn.

	The Cambodian Arts and Scholarship Foundation was founded in 2001 by Frederick Lipp, a retired Unitarian minister and author of the award winning children's book, The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh (Holiday House, 2001), Veasna Chea and her husband, Peter Leth.
	My name is Sodary Chap and I am the Program Director for CASF.  I am 26 years old and I have a younger brother, Sophal, and a younger sister, Dany.