The Mat schools have developed a curriculum that includes the best of basic education, life skills, and spiritual training. The project encompasses teacher development and support as well as administration to resource, setup and maintain more mat schools around Cambodia.
This is a comparably low-cost schooling initiative that will give a larger number of at-risk children a higher quality education that will help them be leaders of the future.
HFTN is committed to work with the Cambodian Hope Organization to develop their mat schools as a formal education option in Cambodia for children who otherwise wouldn't have access to education. The project addresses a larger scope of child development than traditional education. Its goal is to provide a very hands-on learning environment for children to be balanced, whole, and skilled leaders in their communities.
It includes basic education, life skills training such child trafficking awareness, sanitation, and also includes Christian discipleship. This access to a cutting-edge, low cost education is targeted at children who have no access to any form of education.
Eventually the program, once recognized as an alternative to formal school training, could be reproduced in warm locations around the world. We are already in partnership with a wide number of professionals volunteering skills and expertise on the project.
Our partner organization, CHO, is a Cambodian Christian NGO based in Poipet, Cambodia. Its vision is to see a network of strong, hope-filled communities where adequate mental, physical, and spiritual needs are met. CHO believes children to be at the heart of this vision for Cambodia and so strives to educate, empower and equip children as leaders of the future.
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Our partner organization, Be A Hero, has the mandate to create heroes out of every day, ordinary people by providing them with opportunities to change the world, one child at a time.
Our partner is Christian Services Association, a non-profit society founded in Canada in 1973 and in the USA in 1984. It is the parent ministry of Extreme Prophetic, a 501(c)3 founded in 2004 in Arizona.