News – Phare Ponleu Selpak

A year gone by: Highlights of 2022

by ppsa | January 3, 2023 | Blog English | 0 Comments

2022 has come to a close, and it is with both pride and gratitude that we look back on all the things we have achieved in this first full post-lockdown year. The highlights are too many to count, but here – in words and in pictures – is our attempt. Guinness World...

Integrating Art in Early Education: Training of Battambang Public Schools’ Kindergarten Teachers

by ppsa | January 2, 2023 | Blog English | 0 Comments

Through a series of workshops in the fall, we’ve focused intensely on training Battambang’s public school kindergarten teachers on integrating arts in the education of young children. The first workshop took place back in September, where we hosted Kindergarten...

Fight for Light: Virtual Fundraising Gala

by ppsa | December 26, 2022 | Blog English | 0 Comments

December 18th marked a day we had been looking forward to for a very long time. After months of hard work, we were able to present our virtual fundraising gala Fight for Light: A one-of-a-kind musical circus adventure and multimedia love story about Phare Ponleu...

How we won the Guinness World Record

by ppsa | November 22, 2022 | Blog English | 0 Comments

Cambodian non-profit Phare Ponleu Selpak completed an incredible journey that started on 7th March 2021, when it performed a 24-hour circus in a last-ditch effort to raise funds to survive the pandemic and set a Guinness World Record. Phare was finally able to...

Love Does Not Hurt Mini Festival

by ppsa | October 14, 2022 | Blog English, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Celebrating three years of LDNH Campaign On Friday 14 October, we held a Mini Festival on our Campus called ‘Today’s Tomorrow’, wrapping up all the lessons learned during the past three years of implementing the LDNH project. Love Does Not Hurt was a three-year...

About Karona

by ppsa | August 29, 2022 | Blog English, Project, Students | 0 Comments

The story of first recipient of the Srey Bandaul Art Development Fund.

Be like the bamboo, bend but not break

by ppsa | July 17, 2022 | About, Blog English | 0 Comments

As societies evolve, difficulties that young people also change: scholastic and peer pressure, family breakdowns, toxic living environments, social and cultural changes, the risks connected to the misuse of social networks, difficulties in managing emotions and...

Promoting school nutrition and Gardening

by ppsa | July 15, 2022 | About, Blog English, Project | 0 Comments

Malnutrition still impacts many children in Cambodia. Rice, some meat and vegetables is in their diet but seldom fruit and dairy products, because they are not affordable by vulnerable households. Moreover, Cambodians consume excessive amount of salt, sugar, and MSG....

Community Library

by ppsa | July 15, 2022 | Blog English | 0 Comments

Out of the Tini Tinou International Festival spotlight, which took everyone’s attention during the months of May and June, our education team was busy launching the community “Mobile Library”. Books have always played a significant role at Phare, engaging many...

Phare Hosts Roundtable on Positive Discipline

by ppsa | April 5, 2022 | About, Blog English | 0 Comments

On 23 March 2022 Phare Ponleu Selpak hosted a roundtable discussion on child protection and the promotion of positive discipline for children under the topic, “How to Apply Positive Discipline at School”, with seven guest speakers, including Mr. Chhun Ramy, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) and Mr. Teng Visal the Deputy Director of the Provincial Office of Education (PoE) in Battambang and representative of a few public schools. Student representatives participated in the audience as well.