For 20 years, the Cambodian association Pour Un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE), meaning For a Child’s Smile, has been striving to get children out of extreme poverty. In 2017, PSE built a School of Sales Management (EGV) in Phnom Penh. A few weeks ago, the association inaugurated a photovoltaic generator in the school grounds, allowing 2,200 children to study in better conditions and improve their knowledge of their environment.

Energy savings and environmental awareness

The photovoltaic generator on the new campus of the School of Management and Sales run by the NGO For a Child’s Smile (PSE) has just been installed. Thanks to the solar energy generated by the new system, PSE envisages saving around $12,000 a year on the energy bill of its centre in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Every day, nearly 2,200 children and young people living in extreme poverty come to study at the centre, the remedial school or the association’s Professional Training Institute (FPA), where 450 young students live as boarders.

In addition to the savings it enables the NGO to make, the installation of the solar generator helps to heighten the awareness of the young Cambodians supported by PES of renewable energy and biodiversity. The association has integrated such awareness-raising into its educational approach. With the generator commissioned this month, PSE invited all the centre’s children to take part in the second edition of its World Environment Day, organised on 5 June, which was followed up by a fortnight focusing on the environment, comprising courses, conferences and activities organised for all the children.

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