Cambodian Scholarship Foundation
Investing in education for adolescent girls in Cambodia
Cambodian Scholarship Foundation
Investing in education for adolescent girls in Cambodia
Our Mission
The Cambodian Scholarship Foundation is dedicated to educating and empowering adolescent girls in Cambodia. CASF works with local communities to identify students who show motivation, merit, and need. We provide funding, training, and mentoring to lead students through secondary school to higher education, acquiring the skills they need for a sustainable future.
our programs
The Cambodian Scholarship Foundation (CASF) operates in two Cambodian provinces, Kandal and Svay Rieng. We intervene with educational opportunities for girls before high school, at the very time they often drop out or are taken out of school, and we follow them closely throughout high school, providing a local educational coordinator who works with students on a personal basis.
Once a student passes the National Exam and is accepted to a university, oversight continues, with housing (in the CASF University Women’s Support Center in Phnom Penh), a computer lab, mentoring, medical care, and monthly stipend and tuition provided by CASF.
For fifteen years, CASF has concentrated all our efforts towards our mission, that of educating our students. We can now boast of over seventy graduates, who are working in law firms, hospitals, NGOs, businesses, and in other professions.
our programs
The Cambodian Scholarship Foundation (CASF) operates in two Cambodian provinces, Kandal and Svay Rieng. We intervene with educational opportunities for girls before high school, at the very time they often drop out or are taken out of school, and we follow them closely throughout high school, providing a local educational coordinator who works with students on a personal basis.
Once a student passes the National Exam and is accepted to a university, oversight continues, with housing (in the CASF University Women’s Support Center in Phnom Penh), a computer lab, mentoring, medical care, and monthly stipend and tuition provided by CASF.
For fifteen years, CASF has concentrated all our efforts towards our mission, that of educating our students. We can now boast of over seventy graduates, who are working in law firms, hospitals, NGOs, businesses, and in other professions.
Our students
CASF students are selected based on need, merit, and motivation. We work closely with communities and our educational coordinators to choose girls who have talent and a strong will to learn, and whose education would be difficult or impossible if not for additional support.
Meta (left) is in Grade 11. She lives in Srok Thrum village in Kandal province, and her favorite subject is Khmer literature. She wants to be a nurse when she grows up.
Sokserey (right) is a 2nd year student at Royal University of Phnom Penh.
Sokserey was #1 in her high school class of 40. She spent a total of nine hours a day in class, and still helped her parents in the rice fields.
our Organization
CASF Board of Directors
Heidi Brewer, President
Dana Clark, Treasurer
Elise d’Amboise, Secretary
Delanie Honda
Debra Honey
Mong Kimna
Sharon Phelan
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Founder
Fred Lipp
Executive Director
Julianna Nielsen
Program Coordinator, Cambodia
Kol Panha
our Organization
CASF Board of Directors
Heidi Brewer, President
Dana Clark, Treasurer
Elise d’Amboise, Secretary
Delanie Honda
Debra Honey
Mong Kimna
Sharon Phelan
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Founder
Fred Lipp
Executive Director
Julianna Nielsen
Program Coordinator, Cambodia
Kol Panha
80% of our income comes from individual donations. Please consider supporting one of our students. Your generosity will change a life forever.
$25 will provide a scholarship stipend for one month.
$50 buys school supplies for one student for an entire school year.
$350 will provide a scholarship stipend for one student for an entire year.
$1,500 will support one university student, including housing, tuition and stipend, for one year.