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Our programmes engage diverse groups, including primary, secondary and tertiary students, teachers, older people, and wider communities. FSF works with partners across education, health, and community sectors – such as schools, health centres, universities, Buddhist organisations, and community groups in Battambang Province – to deliver locally relevant, integrated programmes.
Guided by community consultation and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDGs 1–6, 10, 13, and 17, FSF’s programmes focus on supplementary education, preventative health awareness, life skills, and environmental sustainability. Through experiential learning and collaborative programme delivery, activities are designed to support practical learning, community wellbeing, and long-term local capacity.
Working alongside schools and education partners, programmes focus on conversational English, STEM learning, creative expression, digital literacy, and interactive teaching approaches that encourage confidence, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.
Programmes also support teachers and local partners through collaborative classroom activities, pedagogy sessions, experiential learning approaches, and capacity-strengthening initiatives designed to encourage sustainable programme delivery beyond direct implementation.
Life skills activities aim to provide learning opportunities beyond traditional rote-learning environments. Through teamwork, leadership activities, financial literacy, creative projects, and interactive workshops, students are encouraged to develop communication, confidence, problem-solving, and personal development skills.
Activities are designed to create safe and engaging spaces where children and young people can explore important community topics while strengthening practical soft skills and community awareness.
Health programmes focus on preventative health education and community wellbeing. Working alongside schools, health centres, elderly associations, and community partners, programmes support workshops and awareness activities related to WASH, nutrition, reproductive health, specialist health topics, first aid, sports, and healthy lifestyle practices.
In partnership with local health providers, FSF also supports community outreach initiatives including pop-up clinics, home visits, maternal care activities, health screenings, and specialty screening initiatives. Programmes place particular emphasis on community-centred and intergenerational approaches, recognising the important role elderly caregivers often play within rural family structures.
In partnership with our Supplementary Education Class programme, we support the Women’s Handicraft and Sewing shop. This shop allows women in the community surrounding our programme to engage in valuable and profitable skills such as sewing, weaving and handicraft design.
Additionally, we offer computer skill classes for local children, providing them with the digital literacy they need to succeed in today’s workforce. These classes enhance their learning opportunities and open doors to better employment prospects in the future, helping to break the cycle of poverty and create lasting change in the community.
Environmental sustainability programmes combine environmental education with practical community action. Through workshops, recycling initiatives, waste management activities, nature education, composting, gardening, tree planting, and community clean-up activities, participants are encouraged to develop greater awareness of environmental challenges affecting their communities.
Programmes aim to promote sustainable daily habits, environmental responsibility, and hands-on community engagement through practical and locally relevant learning activities.
Conversational English
We want all 1,500 children we engage with in our programmes to increase and improve their ability to use the English language. We want to bring native English speaking volunteers to engage our students in interactive and exciting lessons that will not only give the children confidence to speak, but inspire them to continue in their studies and see the successful completion of grade 12 increase.
STE(A)M
We adapted the traditional meaning of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to include the Arts. use simple everyday resources available to children to promote better understanding of basic principles of physics, structural and mechanical engineering.
Teacher training
In order to allow for the sustainability of our programmes, we believe in providing valuable resources and information sessions to the teachers so they may continue to carry out education initiatives in the classroom. Our teacher training sessions seek to provide our teachers with information about lesson planning, activity and resource development, classroom management, and even gender equality in the classroom.
Due to strict government school curriculum and timetables, many children are not able to learn other valuable skills and access classes that inspire creativity and critical thinking. We want to engage students in sessions that bring out new types of learning and provide opportunities to expand their education outside the “Rote learning” style they are used to. Sessions surrounding STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) provide students the opportunity to problem solve, engage in team or group work and allow for leadership opportunities, especially in young girls, and see critical thinking skills sharpen.
Creative Arts sessions provide even further avenues for creativity by creating a safe space to explore the arts. Students learn topics such as animation, sketching, and performing arts such as drama and dance. These artistic outlets allow the students to bring awareness to important community topics such as plastic use, drugs, domestic violence, and sanitation.
Our health programmes engage children in government schools and our Supplementary Education Class programme as well as the adults in the community to provide information surrounding a number of topics that we believe will impact the children and their families to live healthier and longer lives. We aim to reduce preventable illness such as water born illnesses by leading health workshops based on water and sanitation, food safety, and transmission. We aim to reduce non-communicable diseases by assessing community needs, conducting research, and sharing information on how daily habits impact future health. We also aim to reduce stigma and misinformation around female hygiene and menstruation by creating safe spaces for young women in the community.
In partnership with our Supplementary Education Class programme, we support the Women’s Handicraft and Sewing shop. This shop allows women in the community surrounding our programme to engage in valuable and profitable skills such as sewing, weaving and handicraft design.
Additionally, we offer computer skill classes for local children, providing them with the digital literacy they need to succeed in today’s workforce. These classes enhance their learning opportunities and open doors to better employment prospects in the future, helping to break the cycle of poverty and create lasting change in the community.
Within Cambodia, waste and waste management is a major issue. This includes the rapid growth of plastic waste with no recycling system in place which contributes to the environmental burden.
Our Environmental Programmes go beyond classroom lessons by involving the community in hands-on projects to address environmental issues, helping participants learn whilst making an impact. We also work to raise awareness on Environmental Sustainability through delivering workshops related to recycling, waste management, sustainable lifestyle changes, sustainable food production and consumption.
We aim to bring further environmental awareness to our children through life skills lessons and creating new daily habits through providing areas for plastic waste at the schools.
“Cambodia is such a special place — home to Angkor Wat, one of the wonders of the world and a breathtaking testament to human creativity, devotion, and resilience. It’s a country with a deep cultural heritage and a powerful story of recovery. While honouring its history and those who lived through its darkest times, Cambodia is looking forward — you see artists rekindling the nation’s creative spirit, and a young population determined to rise above the past. We’re proud to work alongside local communities to support education, health, and environmental initiatives, empowering the next generation to become leaders and changemakers in their own communities.”
Cambodia Country Manager
