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Education & Outreach
Delivering sustainable, year-round aid through our education programmes.
Every child deserves the opportunity to receive quality education. The ability to read and write will lay a foundation for a future without poverty or hunger. Education equips children with fundamental knowledge and skills to better provide for themselves and empowers the community to improve health and prevent diseases like HIV.
Programmes
LIGHT A DREAM SCHOLARSHIP
LIGHT A DREAM SCHOLARSHIP
The Light-A-Dream Scholarship (LADS) is a long standing initiative that invests in the education of a group of selected students with the hope that these individuals will someday contribute back to the community and its betterment. Each year, approximately 30 scholars ranging from Grades 7 through 12 and even up to university, are carefully selected by the sisters of the MSSHJ based on their personal and financial needs, and are financially supported via the scholarship.
SSP has evolved into a programme centred around supplementing the healthcare education to the students. In our most recent trip, we selected Love Without Boundaries (LWB) in Cambodia, a charity organisation for vulnerable children. We taught them simple first aid measures as well as tips on personal hygiene which they could share with their immediate community as a form of community empowerment. In the future, we aim to create more long-term and sustainable change by contributing to the syllabus that is taught to students, as well as by training the teachers to be more knowledgeable on healthcare-related topics.
SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAMME
SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAMME
Our 2018 main trip marked the implementation of the School Support Programme (SSP) to channel funds towards improving the school’s environment directly, provide a more conducive
environment for education to take place.
We have since selected Santipheap Primary School as the first beneficiary of our SSP. Project Battambang has agreed to fund the construction of a well and toilets within the school, and the school has since begun construction works and will continue to support the school for the next 3 years. As for long-term objectives, we hope to work with the teachers to implement a health education curriculum focusing on three aspects of health – physical, emotional and psychological health.
Post
Screening
Education
Post Screening Education has been a key part of our screenings since Project Battambang’s inception. This programme aims to inculcate education as part of our screenings, by ensuring that people are properly educated on the ways to improve their health and fitness. In our most recent trip, the themes we chose were “Bites”, “Dental Care”, “Nutrition” and “Hair lice”. The Cambodian volunteers used posters we had prepared beforehand to conduct the lessons with the villagers.
We are working to implement topics such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as first aid skills in the future.
