Fishing
Unpredictable extreme weather and a population boom prompt some coastal residents to look for new hope away from the water
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Amanda Oon • Jun 08, 2022
Education
Cooking and craft courses supported by Aide et Action offer new opportunities to ethnic minority residents in rural areas
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Amanda Oon • Jan 10, 2022
Covid-19
Cambodian schools have been closed for more than 200 days since the onset of Covid-19. Already struggling to engage thousands of young learners pre-pandemic, this extended break has only worsened the situation, with the long-term effects on a generation of students yet to be seen
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Chia Chi Hsu • Aug 26, 2021
Laos has long struggled with low standards among its teachers, resulting in very poor educational attainment among its youngest students. The recent Covid-19 outbreak has shuttered schools once more, pausing a much-needed shake up in the country’s approach to learning
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Chia Chi Hsu • May 24, 2021
Covid-19
Broadband internet became indispensable during the pandemic, facilitating ways to study, work, and socialise online. But rural Laos lags badly behind with its patchy connectivity and expensive broadband internet, jeopardising education and harming development
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Navet Tab • Jan 22, 2021
Covid-19
In the Cambodian frontier city of Poipet, many families who depended on cross-border trade with Thailand to earn a living are facing destitution as land crossings remain closed and Covid-19 shuts down much of the global economy
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Navet Tab • Nov 30, 2020
Flooding
Recent weeks have seen some of the worst flooding in Cambodia for decades, leaving communities across the Kingdom submerged. What has resulted has been death and injury, displaced households, and major interruptions to the education of young students
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Navet Tab • Nov 05, 2020
When Cambodian schools closed due to Covid-19, poor internet access and a lack of minority language materials made distance learning in rural communities near impossible. But armed with a simple radio, children are rising above these obstacles to their education
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Navet Tab • Sep 30, 2020
Analysis
Laos has the highest rate of young brides in Southeast Asia – but education is the pathway to female empowerment says Christine Redmond, as she offers lessons and insights from Aide et Action’s women’s entrepreneurship project in the country
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Navet Tab • Aug 31, 2020
Analysis
In the face of the global economic downturn, how might harnessing the untapped potential of ethnic minority youth not only build a more equitable and sustainable Vietnam, but also accelerate the country’s economic recovery?
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Navet Tab • Jul 16, 2020
Covid-19
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, Cambodia’s urban-poor communities have suffered severe economic shocks and fallen further into poverty. Without a secure social security safety net to fall back on, many are now relying on NGOs to keep them afloat
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Navet Tab • Jul 02, 2020
The socio and economic fallout of the current health crisis is already threatening to undo the gains made to address poverty, hunger, education, good health and well-being in recent years. While the pandemic disrupts almost every facet of life around the globe, Aide et Action poses the question if this disruption could in fact propel early childhood education rather than set it back
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Daniel Marchette • Jun 08, 2020
Education in Cambodia
In Cambodia’s Kep province, Phou Mom has shaken up the education system in recent decades. Her efforts inspired generations of the Kingdom’s female students, including Vannet Neak, today a school director who is trailblasing a path of her own
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Chia Chi Hsu • Mar 13, 2020