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 Phnom Pehn, a computer lab, mentoring, medical care, and monthly stipend and tuition provided by CASF.

For twenty 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. CASF operates in Cambodia under the umbrella of local NGO Open Book Libraries.

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.

Saroun (left) is from Svay Rieng and is studying Agriculture at the Royal University of Agriculture. She is the only one of her siblings to make it past elementary school.

Kanika (right) is a student at Royal University of Law & Economics and wants to work in human rights.