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 one of our youngest students, in Grade 9. 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.
Sophorn and Sokserey (right) are both in Grade 12 in Kandal province.
Sophorn excels at languages: She is the leader of the English club at her school, and studies Chinese and French as well. She wants to be a tour guide in Phnom Penh so she can use her linguistic skills.
Sokserey is #1 in her class of 40. She loves math, and wants to be a math teacher. She is currently taking classes in Khmer, Math, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Geography, and Astronomy. Sokserey spends a total of nine hours a day in class, and still helps her parents in the rice fields.
our Organization
CASF Board of Directors
Heidi Brewer, President
Merry Farnum, Secretary
Elise d’Amboise
Lisa Grant
Delanie Honda
Debra Honey
Mong Kimna
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Founder
Fred Lipp
Executive Director
Julianna Nielsen
Program Coordinator, Cambodia
Kol Panha
our Organization
CASF Board of Directors
Heidi Brewer, President
Merry Farnum, Secretary
Elise d’Amboise
Lisa Grant
Delanie Honda
Debra Honey
Mong Kimna
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.
$300 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.