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