Project identity card
- OBJECTIVE: TO SPONSOR A CLASS OF YOUNG GIRLS FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL TO THE BACCALAUREATE, ACCOMPANY THEM TO THEIR FIRST JOB AND SUPPORT THE GREEN TEAM
- COUNTRY: Cambodia (Asia)
- DATE: 2023 – 2025
- FOR PEOPLE: EDUCATION – ENVIRONMENT
25 to 30 girls per class
25 to 30 girls per class
The project
The Toutes à l’école association, founded by journalist Tina Kieffer in 2005, aims to bring a high level of education to the poorest girls in Cambodia, so that they can become free, educated women.
Every year, 100 new girls aged 5 to 6 from the poorest families join the Happy Chandara campus in the suburbs of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from kindergarten onwards. They will have the opportunity to pursue a high-level curriculum in kindergarten, primary school, junior high and high school, taught in Khmer, English and French.
The program continues with young baccalaureate students continuing their studies, who are accommodated in the two Chandara Students’ Homes in Phnom Penh, where they can build an independent adult life in a secure environment.
Given that Cambodia is particularly vulnerable to global warming, the association aims to make Happy Chandara the first entirely green pilot school in Cambodia.
The role of the ENGIE Foundation
The ENGIE Foundation has been supporting Toutes à l’école since 2015. For 2023, it has been decided to support the creation of the Green Team. The Green Team includes engineering interns from Grandes Ecoles (Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Centrale – Supélec Paris and Lyon), agronomists or from communications schools like Celsa, all passionate about environmental issues, who design teaching tools, run workshops with our students and prototype projects (such as greening spaces and creating educational videos).
The ENGIE Foundation is also supporting a student, TOLA CHHORN, with a scholarship to the Ecole des Mines.