Cambodia - Digital inclusion to end poverty

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With your support, we were able to do the renovation of the Passerelles Numériques center in Cambodia: repainting the walls and improving the layout of the classrooms to make them more creative, agile, and innovative and thus ensure better training and a sustainable exit from poverty for disadvantaged young people in Cambodia.

• Classrooms promoting innovation, stimulation and collaboration (easily adjustable individual tables facilitate group teaching, by project. We make the classroom more flexible depending on the type of activity. By installing glass boards on an entire wall, we allow several groups of students to present a solution or discuss a problem.
• A library offering students the opportunity to read in Khmer or English, but also to organize exchanges and cultural activities. We were also able to purchase numerous books
• Renovation of the canteen: the roof of the canteen has been redone to provide better work space for staff.
• We were also able to purchase supplies: doors, fans, lamps to provide a better workspace for our students, teachers, volunteers and partners

Thank you!   This project allows us to continue our mission!  

Located in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam and Madagascar, PN targets the most disadvantaged
youth who have no access to education and empowers them with digital training on key technical and soft employability skills.

PN offers a sustainable career that aligns with the country’s tech market needs. PN supports 5 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that include gender equality, access to quality education and poverty eradication. PN Covers all living and education expenses. From recruitment to job placement, our holistic curriculum ensures the success of our students. Through intensive English training, internships, entrepreneurship modules and critical thinking our students develop professional skills, forming the next generation of actors in a digital world.

More than 90% of our students find a quality job after graduation – ending the cycle of poverty for them and their families. Since 2005, more than 2 500 youth have graduated and found employment. More than 12 000 people, our students and their families, have been lifted from poverty.

• Renovation report PNC (PDF)
  

Context

Financial difficulties continue to be a barrier for high school graduates to pursue their higher education in Cambodia. 60% of the working poor population survives with less than $3 USD a day. In consequence, many young Cambodians must drop their studies, move to neighboring countries, and end up working in very difficult conditions to send some money home. 

77% of the population lives in rural areas and 49% is under 25. Most secondary education is provided on a fee-paying basis, and is therefore inaccessible to most students, especially in rural areas.

Since 2005, 

• 1621 graduates. 

Selection/Professional Orientation

In 2022

• Information sessions were conducted with 42 high school and NGO partners by high school teachers, NGOs and the PNC team. 3000 candidates attended the sessions. Among them, the PNC team received 1400 candidates.

• 604 took the written exams. 
• 300 home visits
• 75 students were selected ( 51% girls) 

(May) PNC hosted the 7th Career Forum: an opportunity for our company partners to recruit new employees by meeting diverse skilled graduates and students. More than 500 students and job seekers attended the event. 

(September)  our partner company, Renet Japan, hosted an Ideathon event. 100 of our students participated to tackle social issues by using technology-based solutions, and one of our students won second place in the competition. 

(December)  the graduation ceremony for Class of 2020 and 2021 was held to celebrate students' completion of our program, with the participation of NGO and Companies partners. It was the first time we held the event outside of PNC. The event was also broadcasted on national television, BTV Cambodia.

• Cambodia success story (PDF)