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Name of organisation: PEPY
Address: House 14, Street 312, Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh
Mailing address: PO Box 1235, Phnom Penh
Telephone: +855 (0)23 222 804 ( Cambodia) +1-914-458-4264 ( USA)
E-mail: countrymanager@pepyride.org
Website: www.pepyride.org
Contact names Maryann Bylander, Meas Vanna Aline
Child-to-Child activities
We began Child-to-Child (CtC) activities in March/April of this year in 11 villages in Chanleas Dai Commune, Kralanh District, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. There are 263 youth that are official members of the 11 clubs and we have 5 facilitators (and one manager) running them.
We began the program as a result of the Participatory Rural Assessment that we completed in February, which led us to consider educational initiatives outside of the formal schooling system. Our Country Manager had been trained in CtC methodology in London and had implemented Child Clubs here in Cambodia prior to coming to PEPY. She was eager to begin the program and has been the reason for its success thus far.
The program is supported through PEPY, a 501c3 registered in the US and working in Cambodia, where we are also registered. Individual donors support the CtC clubs.
Aims of the activities
Promoting literacy through non-formal education
- Promoting knowledge of basic health and environmental issues that are important to children within their own communities
- To increase knowledge of basic health and sanitation in order to reduce disease.
- Empowering students to become change-makers and advocates for education, sustainable environmental practices, and positive health behaviours, with the understanding that they can make a difference in the lives of their families and communities.
- To empower adult community leaders and provide role models for educational success
Encouraging children’s participation
Yes, we use the step approach pretty much as is. Clubs meet on a weekly basis in the various villages with facilitators for 2 hours/week. We use various methods of group activities, surveys, stories etc to implement the step-approach.
Health both in and out of school
We do Child Clubs outside of school, in 11 villages. This represents the area surrounding 6 primary schools and one secondary school. Our organization also works in the local schools, but we found that we can only be somewhat effective inside the government school. Teachers and principals receive very low salaries and are not very invested in education. Many do not come from these communities. We wanted to move outside of the school system to promote the idea that learning does not need to take place in the classroom. This is our first year.
As of now parents and community members are not directly involved. However as the meetings are in public spaces in the villages, parents and community members often watch some or all of the activities.
Monitoring and evaluation the activities
We are only in the beginning stages so little monitoring and evaluation has taken place. We plan on involving the children in all stages of monitoring/evaluation.
How are CtC training requirements met?
Our trainer is our Country Manager, who was trained in London by the Child-to-Child Trust. Our educators/facilitators of the clubs are locally hired young men and women who have completed high levels of education (9th grade or higher) are literate, like working with kids, and want to develop skills in community development/education. They come from the communities we work in and have participated in a two week training in CtC methodology, with weekly meetings to discuss the past week’s challenges and next week’s plan.
Use of materials
We base our training in country on the training manual that was distributed to trainees by the Child-to-Child Trust. We have a training manual based on this translated into Khmer.
We have just ordered several Child-to-Child story books and will look into modifying them and/or translating them into Khmer if this is possible. We know that Sovann Phoum has developed books for use in Child-to-Child clubs, however we do not use these at present.
Date: 2008
Source: PEPY, Cambodia
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