• Near Siem Reap, Cambodia . Three classrooms, 330 students.
• The project is directed by Svay Savong, aged 24.
• The objective is to give young rural students employment opportunities.
• The school is an example of the global village at work.

Angkor Wat is one of the wonders of the world, and nearby this group of amazing temples (each around 1000 years old,) is the tourist town of Siem Reap . Tourism is big here, and for the burgeoning number of school aged children (half of Cambodia is aged under 19,) the only work prospects outside of the fairly subsistence level family farm or business, is a job in tourism or hospitality. There are few other jobs going.

To give rural students a chance to find employment, Svay Savong is a young man who has established a school to teach languages to children who cannot afford paid tuition. His school, a modest three classroom building built in 2005 in a small village East of Siem Reap, has met immediate success. Students don't have to attend here – they already go to the State School . But the State system doesn't teach languages such as English or Japanese, and so 330 children willingly attend Savong's School. These students in the photos currently attend Savong's School.

It is a good place for the students, a social hub, a place to learn and a place that gives opportunities. The teachers work hard to deliver quality education.

Savong began the school because of his own experience, growing up in the years of poverty after the fall of Pol Pot. As he states it; “I don't want children to ever face what we had to face.”

This website shows you the school and shows how you can help support it. It is a worthwhile project, an example where people around the world have linked by email to a good person with a great project in the middle of Cambodia and, together, have turned the dream into reality. This is the global village at work!