The Global Innovation and Education Fund

Dear Supporters,

In the last quarter I have really noticed a significant difference in Kimyi. He has really embraced his role as Community Liaison Officer, and is such a crucial part of our team. We recently celebrated him reaching a year of working with us and the heartwarming messages written in his card by volunteers just showed how Kimyi really makes our programme strong. 

When I started working with us, Kimyi was straight away very kind towards me, and would daily tell me interesting things about his country. He was though quite quiet around volunteers. I used to encourage volunteers to go to Kimyi for advice with their lesson planning or if they wanted to further their knowledge on Cambodia, and from this I could see how Kimyi started to gain confidence in leading the volunteers. Being a confident leader is definitely something that I have seen Kimyi work on in the past few months, and it is wonderful to see the difference it has made. Not only is Kimyi working incredibly well with volunteers, strengthening their abilities with his knowledge, but also Kimyi seems to be a lot happier. 

He comes into work ready to go, and straight away you can see the volunteers gravitate towards him to chat and get ready for lessons with him. Not only does he get to know their abilities and strengths in teaching, but he also gets to know them personally which really adds to the family feel our programme has. 

I have recently talked to Kimyi about his ambitions for the future, and he told me how he has already achieved his ambition of becoming a teacher trainer. However he does have another dream, to open his own school! It is very expensive to be able to do this, but it is great to see Kimyi striving for even more as he always works so incredibly hard. Not only does he have his job with us, but he is a teacher trainer and then spends his weekend in Phnom Penh studying to improve his qualifications. 

On another occasion Kimyi told me how we have helped him so much with his English language capabilities. He feels like his speaking abilities have strengthened, and in the past month he has started to ask every day about new words. He wants to broaden his vocabulary so is always asking us to explain certain words, and often asks for advice about how to phrase different sentences. It is wonderful to see him really try and develop himself on a daily basis. Kimyi really does brighten a day and it is a pleasure to work with him. 

With Gratitude,

NSP Kampong Cham

Dear Supporters

Over the past few months our National Scholar Kimyi has been given extra responsibilities as our new Community Liaison Officer

As our Community Liaison Officer, Kimyi is responsible for our primary contact with the community. Communicating through various forms of media and in person with key contacts at different institutions, Kimyi is now responsible for discussing various topics including students' progress, cancellation dates and potential workshops with many different partners. From this Kimyi will learn how to communicate as the employee of an NGO working with many different organisations, as well as develop his organisational and logistical skills.

Kimyi was also keen to become more involved in curriculum development within the hub, and as such he is now responsible for generally improving our curriculum as well as adapting it to be more accessible and relevant to Cambodian students. Kimyi has a Masters degree in Curriculum Development and as such this responsibility as perfectly suited to him and will provide him with the opportunity to put his academic knowledge into practice.

Kimyi has been given many trainings over the past three months including a 120 hour Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course, as well as project management trainings and talks about volunteer management. We have seen Kimyi grow professionally through these trainings, taking on more responsibility in classes, in planning and with general hub maintenance

With Gratitude

NSP Kampong Cham