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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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.