A small school named Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom

The school was built in the early days of the Phuoc Hoa-Kampong Thom Rubber Project (Vietnam) implemented in Cambodia in 2013. This is the place that has helped many generations of children of workers, company officials and Cambodians to access literacy.

With the attention of the local government and the rubber project from Vietnam, the school named Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom has always been a place to help poor students continue to reach higher education levels in the central area of Kampong Thom province, Cambodia.

To help workers stabilize production and feel secure in their long-term commitment to the company's operations, the units of the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), in addition to developing infrastructure to serve life such as electricity, roads, and medical stations, schools are one of the essential projects of each VRG rubber company in Cambodia.

Built since the early days of Phuoc Hoa Kampong Thom Rubber in Cambodia in 2013, this school has trained many generations of children of workers and staff of the company. The students of the school can then continue to study at higher levels in the central area.

Schools built by companies for children of employees of the units but still have regular teachers arranged by the localeducation sector.

Teachers are paid by the Cambodian government; the rubber company also has a policy to support teachers in their career of educating people here.

Teacher Dim Sok Cheat, 41 years old, has been working at this school for more than 9 years. He came here to teach after meeting his wife, Ret Sok Han, 36 years old. The couple has been working at the school since they were not married yet and now have 3 children. In the photo is Teacher Dim Sok Cheat with his youngest daughter, 4 years old, and his two older children, 7 years old and 6 years old, who are both studying at the school.

In addition to supporting teachers’ salaries, Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom Rubber also provides teaching equipment, books, and transportation for students at the school. The tractors rented by the company to transport students every day not only help children save time going to school, but also help parents feel secure at work.

Children play on the bus to school every day, here they are not only taken care of in terms of education but also in terms of life, health and living close to their parents and family.

In addition to schools, Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom Rubber Company also built more than 150 km of roads to serve production and travel of workers, along with nearly 100 wells to provide domestic water for the entire community.

Local children go to school in the morning and help their parents with housework in the afternoon in the worker housing areas. Currently, the company has built 114 housing projects, including duplexes and detached houses, to meet the needs of Cambodian workers.

Phuoc Hoa School - Kampong Thom often receives attention from local education leaders. In the photo is a class observation and training inspection session of the Kampong Thom Provincial Department of Education.

After more than 10 years of operation, the schools in the Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom Rubber area have more or less degraded. Sharing about this issue, Mr. Dim Sok Cheat hopes that the company can support the school with new textbooks and training programs and equip more desks and chairs to meet the increasing demand, corresponding to the number of children living in the company's residential areas.

Currently, Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom Rubber Development Company Limited has 2 schools, the schools are invested with electricity, water, toilets and full teaching equipment. In which, there is an inter-level school, teaching from grade 1 to grade 6, currently has 126 students, all of whom are children of officers and employees of Phuoc Hoa - Kampong Thom Rubber.

In the remote rubber forests, going to school has given wings to knowledge to many poor children, helping them have more confidence to fulfill their aspirations in the future.

Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) currently has 16 rubber investment companies spread across 7 provinces in Cambodia, with an area of approximately 87,600 hectares. In recent years, the area and output of the Cambodian region have continuously increased. Cambodia is the second largest output region of the Group, after the Southeast region.

Source: https://vov.vn/xa-hoi/ngoi-truong-nho-mang-ten-phuoc-hoa-kampong-thom-post1118705.vov