Resource Development International Cambodia

RDIC is our hero in Cambodia.  RDIC combines technology, education, and heart in order to help the people of Cambodia.  We can’t say enough about how impressive their projects are, or how much we support their approach to development.  They simply do it all, and do it in sustainable ways that provide a model for how development should be (but all too often isn’t) practiced. 

From the RDIC website:

“Introducing technology is ineffective without realistic education.  Education is unlikely to be absorbed without trust.  And trust is hard to acquire without a genuine love for the people who we wish to teach.  Our strategy is based on the idea that our work will be most effective if it is based on building fundamental relationships with people. That way, our organization can work with the people, not just providing for them.  In turn, they will be able to provide for themselves in the future.”

In partnership with RDIC, PEPY has built several rainwater harvesting units for schools and communities.  We sell and promote RDIC water filters in the communities in which we work, and have recently started monthly viewings of RDIC's innovative health and environmental educational videos for all 8 of PEPY's partner schools in and around Chanleas Dai Commune.  Mostly, we look to RDIC for inspiration, examples of development gone right, and ideas to further improve our educational and environmental projects.

In partnership with RDIC, PEPY has built several rainwater harvesting units for schools and communities.  We sell and promote RDIC water filters in the communities we work in, and have recently started monthly viewings of RDIC's innovative health and environmental educational videos for all 8 of PEPY's partner schools in and around Chanleas Dai commune.  Mostly, we look to RDIC for inspiration, examples of development gone right, and ideas to further improve our educational and environmental projects.

http://www.rdic.org
 

Basic Education and Teacher Training (BETT)

PEPY is working with BETT to strengthen our Khmer Literacy program. BETT has created Early Literacy Readers, an incredible educational resource for students and teachers, and is helping PEPY develop children's literature for our Classroom Library program.

www.bett-cambodia.org

Room to Read

Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries and creating local language children's literature. Room to Read is currently helping PEPY to develop a library of selected Khmer children's books that will be supplemented with classroom activities to engage students and foster a love and enjoyment of reading.

http://www.roomtoread.org/index.html

One Laptop Per Child

Through the One Laptop Per Child’s “Give one Get one Program”, PEPY was given 100 XO laptops for the PEPY Ride School in February.  We are excited to be one of the first pilot schools for the XO laptops, both in Cambodia and across the world.  Engineered explicitly as a learning tool for children in developing countries, the XO laptops encourage critical thinking skills, logic, math learning, and even team building through games and activities.

XO computers are not "laptops" in the sense that we understand the word.  Instead, they are learning tools for children, which happen to have a keyboard and look a bit like a laptop.   It is amazing to see the kids use these things. They are challenging, constantly engaging, and offer students a chance to really be creative, all of which are lacking in the Khmer education system.

The XO is also the MOST eco-friendly computer out there!  They were designed to be completely free of e-waste products, recyclable up to the point where even the internal material in the laptop, including the battery, is biodegradable and decomposes into soil enhancing fertilizer!

http://www.laptop.org
 

Asian University for Women (AUW)

AUW is an international university in Chittagong Bangladesh, offering scholarships to marginalized young women with bright potential for a challenging 6-year BA/MA Program. PEPY works as the in-country recruiting partner for AUW, coordinating the scholarship selection process by administering applications, interviewing students, meeting applicants’ families, and eventually accompanying the scholarship recipients as they transition from Cambodia to university life in Bangladesh.

www.asian-university.org

Center for Information Systems Training (CIST)

CIST aims to help bridge the digital divide in Cambodia through its IT training center, which enables disadvantaged students to find employment in the fast growing IT industry.

www.cistrain.org/en/index.php