- 24. August 2024
School and Kindergarten
August: A Month of Hope
August is one of the best months on the Smiling Gecko Campus. We are in the middle of the rainy season and things are growing and blossoming all over the Campus. The absolute highlight is of course the enrollment of our new children, which traditionally takes place in this month as well.
This year we welcomed about 50 girls and boys between the ages of three and four. 50 children whose prospects for the future improved dramatically from one day to the next. Having just been condemned to a life of poverty and hopelessness, the chance of a self-determined, better future increases dramatically when they pass the school aptitude test. For the children, but also for the parents, who now know exactly how important education is in impoverished Cambodia. We have seen this in countless conversations with them. And we can also see it in the attendance rate of our school, which is 98,6% and thus more than 50% higher than that of the state schools. That’s good.
So here are some pictures of the first day of school, when our older children traditionally take care of the newcomers.
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