What we Do

Children & Schools & Communities, all define our fundamental approach which put child in the center of our organisation

The Reaching Out Project is our Heart Project. We established the ELQ Initiative (Educational Lifetime Education) to help and support schools, children and communities in Cambodia and break this poverty cycle, and succeed our cause, which is to improve and change lives of poor children in Cambodia and else, by creating better living and educational conditions to them.

We focus on children needs both within schools and within their families.

We focus on families helping them to escape from poverty so they can encourage their children to attend school.

We focus on schools’ needs and quality of education so children can be in a safe environment to get knowledge and continue school.

We focus to create a safe and secure environment for children, and providing to them Child Friendly Schools and safe, secure environment in Communities.

This approach is the core of our organization; We are committed to create a Sustainable Environment for all Children.

Children & Schools & Communities, all define our fundamental approach which put child in the center of our organisation

We focus on children needs both within schools and within their families.

We focus on families helping them to escape from poverty so they can encourage their children to attend school.

We focus on schools’ needs and quality of education so children can be in a safe environment to get knowledge and continue school.

We focus to create a safe and secure environment for children, and providing to them Child Friendly Schools and safe, secure environment in Communities.

This approach is the core of our organization; We are committed to create a Sustainable Environment for all Children.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Reaching Out Project has developed 8 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) to succeed its mission and objectives.

Our Approach is aligned with the top six SDGs adopted by the United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call for action to end poverty, to protect planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. Our Approach is aligned with the National Call from Government for Child Friendly Schools, creating a secure, safe and better environment for them out of injury and out of violence.

Our Innovation approach uses 8 SDGs and through their integration we achieve better and faster results for the poor and vulnerable children.

8 SDGs:

Children

Basic Needs Social Needs, School Needs

We care for all children’s needs starting from the basic needs that any child should have to grow up safe and in good health condition; children have many social needs both in school and communities environment so we offer them programs and security to socialized in a healthy environment in a way that their soul will not become vulnerable to outside factors like poverty and violence; We do cover all of their expenses in school, so school becomes for them a friendly destination to study, play with other children and building foundations for the their future.

Schools & Education

Child Friendly Schools, Safety & Quality, Innovation to Education (Supporting Educational programs and teaching)

In The Reaching Out Project Education is the key to succeed our aim. Such, we developed partnerships with schools’ staff and local Government teaching programs that increase the quality of education given to the children. Apart from covering all school needs for improve teaching we have included also teaching English, culture and computer to these children aiming to open the gate to the world for them.

Family & Communities

Supporting Families & Communities to encourage children being at school and children care

Part of our Integration approach is to support communities and families encouraging children attend school daily. We have developed two basic programs shoulder to shoulder and door to door programs focus to prioritize problems in communities and how to solve them being beneficial for children. Continuous support of poor families, parental job opportunities and preschool kidder garden by grandmothers and grandfathers including a complete training program for parents of the benefits they gain by encouraging their children attend school. Today Status is a random selection which children will be sacrificed and stay home to baby sitting the very young members of the family and babies so both parents can go at seasonal jobs for the daily rise food.

No Poverty

It is a trip not a destination. In The Reaching Out Project Organisation we fight poverty daily for these children; Poverty circle needs to brake and this is our Innovation Integration system targets to.

Clean Water & Sanitation

Unfortunately, the majority of children in Cambodia do not have access to clean water and sanitation with extremely dangerous results for their health and unstable growing. We have established partnerships with companies specialized to the field to provide clean water and sanitation both in schools and communities. In some occasions where access to the schools like in mountains becomes almost inevitable we provide solutions like small 20 lt containers in monthly basis to cover the needs of each child and teachers in water. It doesn’t matter how the water will be delivered, the most important is children to drink that water daily.

Gender Equality

Our Organisation is fully complying with gender equality. In a world of luck of equality between genders we raise a wall to these practices and we are totally committed to provide opportunities equally to all children. In each community and school, we face different status, sometimes girls attending more often school and sometimes the boys. Our Organisation proceeds with respect to each and every case so to bring all children in school as possible.

Programs & Partnerships for the Goals

We have established various programs and partnerships to succeed our goals. School programs, community programs and committees and that help us to have almost in real time feedback of problems and how our support gives the biggest positive impact to them. Apart from the programs to the field, we have established a complete guidance and actions how to raise the responsibility and awareness for our goals to our supporters and friends and our partners. That includes among others, partnerships with specialists, seminars, meetings, exhibitions, publications and much more to keep to the surface all problems related to poor children in Cambodia (School Programs, Community Programs, Committees).

Research, Evidence, Analysis

Using data & Analysis to drive results

For all of us in The Reaching Out Project to maximize the positive impact in children lives means to be professionals in how to succeed our goals for them. This fundamental approach means research and search of evidences, recording of all data and information from the field, analyzing them and using data to drive the results being beneficial for the children. We support data collection and analysis to help Governments assess progress across a range of outcomes and strengthen the Education System as a whole. We also develop together with teachers and families’ programs that could be used later as guidelines for education sector and giving example to other schools and communities how to operate. Our efforts promote transparency, shedding light on education systems and problems emerge so that students, parents and communities gain all information need to encouraged children attend school continuously.

Zero Hunger

Mental Health & Care

Integration of Needs Innovation System to achieve better results in Children’s progress

The Reaching Out Project provides and introduces an innovative and integrated approach to solve school and living conditions of poor children’s lives. An Integrated approach that does not separate children, school and communities but support them as unity, leading to sustainable growth, Child Friendly Schools, Safe and Secure Communities with better living.

The Reaching Out Project integrates all needs and efforts of Children, Schools and Communities, so children can grow up in such an optimum way that combines not only material support but also enhancing each and every personality; To grow up like a complete person in a safe and quality environment, hence to be useful to society and family. Our innovative system of integration of needs and efforts gives us the ability to have a more complete picture of problems and how to drive things towards succeed our aim and mission.

WE CALL IT Sustainable Growth achieved through these 8 SDGs Integration approach and our commitment to global and national action to end poverty and create child friendly schools and communities.

Our Integrated Approach is based on 3 core variables

How it Works

We focus on each one needs not as individual factors but as a unity, as being ONE Process.

The triangle of children, schools and communities is represented like a triangle integrated, leading to Sustainable Growth. It is a continuous process that each variable affects the other two, and that is why our Team focus in very high detail to spot all the problems in each variable and transform it to sustainable growth.

Needs, Efforts, Solutions

We see children as part of the school and schools as part of communities and communities as the place where children will become complete personalities.

Our help and support includes the repairing of schools, clean water and sanitation, as in most schools in Cambodia teaching conditions are horrible and sometimes become dangerous for children; no floor, no walls, mud and water everywhere and no clean water.

Our main help and support is given to the children so in any school and community we support we cover all the school expenses for all children and beyond we provide them all they need back at home to study in better conditions like desks and many more.

Bicycles are our priority. Realising that one of the man factors children drop out school is the bicycles we decided that each child will have its own new bicycle to go to high school. Every child.

Our help and support is not limited to materials and logistics, but we have set up programs and actions that are close to the communities’ needs and of course schools’ needs. We discuss together, we listen their problems, we exchange ideas and we have established a “Shoulder to Shoulder” program that finally fits to children and their special, unique characteristics they do have.

We are beside communities and schools, but most we are beside these children no matter what. The results so far put a smile upon our faces, a smile enough to continue with bigger passion.

Currently we support

5

Schools

1000

Children

7

Communities

Currently

We support 5 schools and changing the lives of over than 1000 children in more than 7 communities totally. With a pathway and focus these children will continue school.

Each school has special characteristics and needs and each one has a different starting point of support. The first school event delivery ceremony took place in Cambodia September 2023 on 28th with the first milestone of supporting 353 accomplished with great success changing the lives of all 353 children.

After Delivery ceremony of the first school we support, we have undertaken to help other 4 schools, most of them in worst condition and communities in a really poor conditions.

Our 5-year mission plan aims to create a portfolio supporting under the above scheme more than 9000 children and above 50 schools always tracking the progress of children in secondary school and supporting them accordingly.

What We do in a list

We Support and Provide more opportunities for poor Children, in Cambodia and other countries, to Knowledge and Education in Sustainable safe and secure environment and growth.
We support children, schools and communities as a unity, integrated, to break this poverty cycle, to succeed our aim; Children & Schools & Communities consist our three fundamental columns.
Getting all children in school and learning needs cooperation with families, educators (teachers) and children needs. We all have the same goal; Children Learning is in the center of this plan. Children in School is our priority.
We provide bicycles to any child to continue to high school.
We provide to all children in primary school back packs, notebooks, pens, pencils, sport equipment and we cover all of their expenses for a complete academic year.
The Reaching Out Project Innovation in education is not only about more materials, bicycles and backpacks to children. It’s about solving a real family and school problems in a simple way to encourage children go to school. NOT JUST FOCUS ON PRIMARY SCHOOL. WE implement a continuous process of children care throughout their University pathway.

Our efforts have one goal. Children to continue school and break the poverty.

The Reaching Out Project works with communities, schools and Government to build strong, innovative education systems that enhance and support learning for all children. We cover children basic, social and school needs including expenses to attend school and bicycles to use in secondary school.
We create Child Friendly Schools (As Government make a regulation), BUILDINGS-REPAIRING ETC.
We create together with teachers, better quality in education to support and encourage children attend school.
We create Educational and Teaching Programs like English classes, computer classes, culture and theatrical and dance classes etc).
We support school needs for better teaching.
We support families and communities “Shoulder to Shoulder” Door to Door and listen their problems that keep children away from school.
We create committees (teams between teachers and villagers to help children continue school).
We create a grandmothers’ program to keep small babies not going to school so family can work-a preschool care program.
We support directly families covering their expenses for children to continue in high school.
We monitor all children to prevent them drop out school in secondary school.
We have partnerships to meet our Goals like Clean Water and Sanitation, Gender Equity, Children Care and Safety and Stop the Poverty.
We build and repair child friendly schools providing the best school environment for children.
We implement works and tasks in schools and communities such as infrastructure works, clean water and sanitation projects throughout region and Cambodia territory.
We have established a tracking program for all children we support to ensure they have all they need to continue school; in addition, we enclose skills lessons for all children and through this process we transform young poor children into tomorrow leaders for their country. This program we call “Tomorrow Leaders”.

The Reaching Out Objectives

To reverse the extreme high percentage of children, (65%) drop out high school which eventually leads them to early low rate labor works, pauperism and permanent poverty.
To provide bicycles and school equipment (like back bags, notebooks, pens, pencils etc) and encourage them continue school because they cannot even afford buy them. Noted that in most cases high school is at least 7km away and with no bicycle daily walking in extreme conditions make them drop out school permanently.
To support local communities by giving the children the best possible efforts for education through various actions and activities.
To support communities and schools by implementing infrastructure works, such as toilets, changing rooms at school, providing water wells for potable water, flooding protection works in villages and communities etc.
 Making ELQ initiative and The Reaching Out Project a beacon reference for all of us and a pilot for supporting more schools in Cambodia, other countries in this South East Asia Region and Africa.