Sokha

During this season of giving, Children's Future International hopes you will generously support children that are growing and learning in Cambodia.  Your contributions give youth like Sokha the opportunity to succeed.    

 

Like many Cambodian girls raised in poverty, Sokha faced the pressure to leave school for work to support her parents and her six younger siblings. This would have put her at immediate risk of trafficking and abuse. With the help of Children's Future International's education program, she continued her education and graduated from high school in 2012. As a leader and role model among the 230 children served by Children's Future, Sokha was asked to deliver a speech at CFI's year-end graduation ceremony in July 2013.

 

"This is for all of you, but especially the girls sitting here in front of me. I know how impossible going to school can seem when all you see every day are the problems in your family and when everyone keeps telling you that you should be working and earning money, not wasting your time in school. But no matter what happens, I want to tell you that you must continue your education. Don't let anything or anyone stop you. Not even yourself. I almost left school countless times because of the pressure at home, because we didn't have enough to eat and there seemed to be so many other, more important things than school. But we need to understand that there's nothing we can do for our families like this. The only way we can help our families and our communities is if we receive a good education."

  

With the support of Children's Future's scholarship program, Sokha is studying English at a local university and wants to become an English teacher.


Please give to Children's Future International as a part of your year-end giving.  Your support will help the 230 children and youth served by Children's Future follow in Sokha's example and achieve their potential.

 

With gratitude,

The board of directors, staff and students of Children's Future International

 

 

 

 

 

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