Our mission

Happy Chandara School provides global support to its pupils: education, food and medical monitoring (general medicine, vaccinations, dental and eye care). Their families are also supported and helped. Happy Chandara’s involvement is essential for the future of the young girls in this poor area, where most of the inhabitants make a living from agriculture, fishing and jasmine flower picking.

Today, more than 1,300 pupils are educated on the campus, which is 12 km from Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city. Each year, 100 new young girls join the school. They are supported throughout their schooling and university or vocational studies until they secure their first job.

Happy Chandara is a comprehensive campus that includes a primary school, a middle school, a high school, a boarding school, a vocational training center, and a medico-social center.

A permaculture school teaches the surrounding community sustainable farming practices in an area where pesticide use is a significant issue..

In Cambodia, 90% of its artists and intellectuals lost their lives due to the Khmer Rouge genocide, and now half of the population is under 18.

Rebuilding the country is a long-term process that requires strong commitment from all those involved. Some parents are so impoverished that they have no choice but to have their children work from a very young age. Many families live in precarious conditions, leading to nutritional deficiencies and hygiene problems.

Public schools offer only part-time education in overcrowded classrooms, and very often, girls must leave school at the end of primary education to help their families.

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Why girls' education?     Levons le doigt pour l'éducation des + fragiles