Our School
Every week we deliver Free English education to over 400 students and over 40 computing classes are held in our classrooms. We are working to provide these incredible students with an education that helps them achieve a bight future.
OUR SCHOOL JOURNEY
You could say our school originated from transforming plastic water bottles into classrooms, and while that's accurate, the real beginning dates back to 2004 with our water filter initiative. It may seem unusual for a school to start this way, but shortly after arriving in Cambodia, we collaborated with the Trail Blazer Foundation to provide water filters to villages in Siem Reap where we discovered that one in seven children would not survive past their fifth birthday. This experience planted the seed for HUSK and from here the idea quickly grew and so did our first classroom.
For 15 years our home base in Kompheim Village served us exceptionally well and although this site was a true gem we were bursting at the seams. In 2023, as we faced space constraints, our lease came to an end marking the beginning of a new chapter.
HUSK SCHOOL 2.0
As HUSK continued to grow we purchased land close to our original school site which initially housed our Softies team and Computing classes. With the approaching end of our lease the HUSK team commenced planning and developed a detailed project plan for what would become our permanent home. This was a 3 year project with a total budget of $55,000 USD and would provide 5 new classrooms, an office, toilet blocks, handwashing facilities, sports spaces and an information centre. With the help of some very special partners including members of the former St Peter's Teachers College Association, Andrea S, and our other fantastic donors we kicked off our biggest bottle build yet. We are pleased to say all 100,000 plastic bottles were reused in our new site.
In late 2023 we moved onto our forever home.
Support The HUSK School
One of the greatest challenges we face is students exiting primary and secondary school to work as day to day itinerate labours to help their families meet their most basic needs. We help families access government education by supporting them in providing uniforms and helping them with transport and other things that become barriers to education. Your support goes a long way to helping HUSK continue to provide education to children in need, support families to break the poverty cycle and help graduates enter the workforce.
