Girl #75 - Layhorn
Sponsor: The Shana Alexander Foundation
Profile: Sien Layhorn is 11 years old and a fourth grade student at the 2006-2007 semester of The Sre Thom Nippon Foundation primary school in Sre Thom village, Ruong Roeung commune, Roveang district, Preah Vihear province.
Current situation: She is a smart and hard study student; she always gets the highest grade among 32 students in the class. Her parents are farmer, besides of faming her family feeding some chickens and oxen, work when someone hired for a living. She has two sisters and two brothers. Her eldest sister is married and live separated house. However, this spouse could not support the family. Her second brother stopped from school since grade two and he is a farmer. Her third sister is study in grade seventh but she has also used to dropped class sometime to work at field when someone hires her, earns $1 a day. Layhorn is a fourth child in the family. There are six members in the family. The reason for her frequently school absence is due to helping her parent to take care of her youngest brother, transplant rice seeding, harvest rive, bring water from the well and housekeeping, malaria etc,. Her family never borrow someone money but just borrow neighbor’s rice about 10KG. And sometime they have to work hard for exchanging some food and rice.
Problem she faces: They are living in the poorest condition. Her parents are educated people but they really want to encourage all their children to attendant class as other students.
Suggestion: Her parents agreed to allow their children attend school regularly.
Support: We pay her parent $10 a month ($120 a year).
Reported by: Nead
Date posted: 25 January, 2007
