Sala Monkey Primary School was founded in 2012 in a small rural village in Kep, Cambodia.
What started out as an opportunity to teach English lessons in a one room dilapidated schoolhouse has now grown into the construction of our beautiful new dream school. A modern learning facility set in the middle of the rice fields in a small village in Kep, Cambodia.
We currently have 157 students enrolled in our Pre-K through P5 program with three foreign teachers and two Khmer teachers.
2018 School Year
We are dependent on the generosity of donors looking to join our mission in providing exceptional education to children who otherwise would not have the means and opportunity to receive an international standard of education.
How Can I Help? What Kind Of Support Will I Help To Provide?
- School supplies - We have nearly 200 students at present with a dual grade level kindergarten and full primary 1-6 program.
- Food and nutrition - The daily snack that we try and provide to our students when our funding allows us to do so.
- Projects! Project Based Learning Resources. Field trips, etc.,
- Teacher and staff salaries - We simply could not operate the school without our dedicated teachers and tuk tuk driver. We are proud to have teachers who've made it their mission to improve the education and quality of life for our students.
- Maintenance of school facilities. This is Cambodia and unfortunately maintenance is a large and consistent cost for us.
- Transportation costs for our tuk tuk (Cambodian bus of sorts) program including maintenance and gas. We transport students from the next village over to and from school everyday as well as the students within our own village who do not have a safe means of transportation to attend public school in the mornings.
- School licenses and other administrative functions.
- The general costs for one school term (3 month period) are approximately $5,000. We also have several small building projects that we need to finish which will account for any additional funding. Projects include: Covered cement walkways that will connect our classroom buildings and restroom facility and the completion of our outdoor theater/meeting area which includes additional cement slab and roof extension.
Who Are The Children?
Our students come to us from in and around our village. The majority of children residing within the rural villages continue to live in generational poverty. Our goal is not only to break the cycle of poverty but help to build real sustainable change for not only the students and their families but the future of Cambodia.
What Type Of Education Do They Receive?
Sala Monkey provides formal quality education to all of our students - free of cost.
The majority of students continue to study their native language at the local government school, four hours each day and come to study the English based curriculum for another four hours here at Sala Monkey.
We follow a syllabus built around the Singapore National Primary curriculum encompassing several different subjects including English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Citizenship, and Art.
Our kindergarten program is also based on the Singapore NEL curriculum and guidelines including Montessori practical life learning.
Our program strongly supports the PBL - Project Based Learning method of teaching/learning. As educators we help to guide the students learning process but the premise of PBL is to allow students to take charge of their research projects.
Our P5 students are currently designing a tourism website for Kep! Pictured: Weekend visit to the Kep Crab Market to take photos and interview tourists about their experience visiting Kep.
