Girl #394 - Ytha
Sponsor: Team Boravuth
Location of the school: The Ruth G. Kimballb School, #273, Cha Ung Chan village, Cha Ung commune, O’Chum district, Ratanakiri province.
Girl student: Pim Ytha is six years old and a first grade student at the primary school. She is the oldest child in the family. Her age fits to the educational policy to enroll school, but she doesn’t like going to school. Especially her parents cannot explain her on the interest of the education.
Why we are sponsoring the girl: Ytha has only one sister. Her parents are poor farmers. They own one hectare of field rice and one hectare of cashew nuts. The yearly harvest of both rice and cashew nuts is not enough to cover the needs of the family. Every year the harvest is almost bad, so the family has to work for other villagers, but working as day laborers they earn very little money. They mostly help the other families clean the grass or harvest cashew nuts. One person can earn an additional $2.50 a day for doing jobs in the village. However, the demand doe day labor is very irregular. Thus the family sometimes cannot affort to buy the rice, clothes, meals, etc they need to survive.
Ytha lives in difficult situation with her poor family, so she dropped out school since mid-october 2008 after she came to school only ten days.
Afterthe meeting on GBA program, the parents of Ytha agree that her daughter must go back to school with perfect attendance. Her parents are also happy to get this opportunity for Ytha.
Support: We pay $10 to the girl’s family for her perfect attendance.
Reported by Tiann Monie
Posted date: June, 2009
