Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Rural Cambodia

One way to break the cycle of poverty, especially on a generational level, is to ensure that children have the opportunity to go to school. Trailblazer has two parts to its Education program: building schools and providing bicycles so students can continue school.

Trailblazer Foundation’s first education project, in 2005, was to construct a primary school building. Since then, Trailblazer has constructed seven school buildings and two libraries. This year, two more school buildings are currently under construction. Each six classroom building can support 480 students, 40 students per classroom, two sessions per day.

Additionally, Trailblazer works to reduce a barrier to education by providing bicycles to our partner villages, so students can travel to schools within their district. This is particularly true of students in Junior and Senior High School, as not every village has one of these schools (they are often shared between villages). Without a bicycle, many students would simply drop out because their secondary level school is just too far away.

To date, Trailblazer has distributed 50 bicycles to students going into the secondary level of school. This is 50% of our 2018 goal. Now these 50 students have a means of travel to and from school and are able to continue their education.

You can help make the next half of the year have as much success by supporting a rural student's education. With a donation of $55 another student can receive a bicycle.

Thank you for your gift and for making a difference in a student's life.