Three Years Projects Report (From April 2014 to September 2016)
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Three Years Projects Report (From April 2014 to September 2016) 1. Community Childcare Project 1-1. Project Location a. Beung Kyang Childcare Center in Beung Kyang Village, Prey Tatoch Childcare Center in Prey Tatoach Village, Beung Kyang Commune, Kandal Steung District, Kandal Province b. Government Pre-schools in Uddar Meanchey province c. Twelve childcare centers in Khan Russey Keo, Khan Sen Sok, Khan Prek Phnov, and Khan Chroy Chanva, Phnom Penh and Ksach Kandal district, Kandal province d. Trapaing Svay Primary School, Sangkat Phnom Penh Thmey, Khan Sen Sok,, Phnom Penh e. Two community pre-schools, one in Prasat village, Prek Sleng commune and another in Ta Prom village, Beung Kyang commune, Kandal Steung district, Kandal province f. Three village pre-schools in Lompong commune, Bati district, Takeo province g. Government community pre-schools in 25 municipality-provinces which were opened from 2014 h. Three village pre-schools in Kaom Samnor commune, Leuk Dek district and one in Prey Pouch commune, Ang Snuol district, Kandal province i. One village pre-school in Sdao Kanlaeng 5 village, Dei Eth commune, Kien Svay district, Kandal province j. Two village pre-schools in Svay Damnak village, Svay Romeat commune, Ksach Kandal district, Kandal province 1-2. Main Goals of The Project - To provide childcare and educational opportunities for young children in order to support their healthy development both physically and mentally. - To promote understanding of the importance of early childhood care and education among childcare teachers, parents and communities. - To train community childcare teachers to acquire appropriate knowledge and skills of childcare. - To support the managing and supporting committee to be self-reliant of managing the childcare centers and village pre-school through capacity building trainings, parental and community collaboration and small-scale credit project. - To support disadvantaged young children through local NGOs community-based childcare projects. 1 - To cooperate with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to organize childcare training and CYK’s childcare materials/games distribution and follow-up at government pre-school in remote provinces - To cooperate with MoEYS on the provision of teaching materials/games to all community pre-schools in 25 municipality-provinces - To cooperate with Early Childhood Care & Education Office of POE of Kandal province to extend childcare project by opening new village pre-schools in Kandal province. - To cooperate with commune council members, local authority and community people to operate the village pre-schools in those communes in Kandal and Takeo provinces 1-3. Target group - Children between 3 to 5 years old in the communities - Community childcare teachers - Parents and community people - Teachers of governmental pre-school and community pre-school - Teachers of village pre-school 1-4. Background At the end of 1991, CYK started the first childcare center project in Kandal province. Then two other childcare centers were opened in 1992 and 1993 in Dankor District in Phnom Penh and one more childcare center in Kandal. From 2003, CYK has been supporting local NGO “Khemara” for reopening two community childcare centers and four new childcare centers in Khan Russey Keo in Phnom Penh. CYK continuously discussed with Khemara to make efforts on managing the sustainable implementation of the project. From 2012, as Khemara found new donor for operated those community childcare centers, CYK continue support only supplementary food such as soya milk and boiled eggs for those six childcare centers, and additional three childcare centers at Khan Sen Sok and Khan Prek Phnov from 2015 and others additional three childcare centers at Khan Chroy Chanva, Phnom Penh and Ksach Kandal district, Kandal province from 2016. The childcare materials/games also were provided for all new opened community childcare centers in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Tbong Khmom provinces as well. CYK has been cooperating with Kandal provincial Office of Education, Youth and Sport for four years project to train pre-school teachers in groups and to equip play materials and the set out-of-door equipment (slide, seesaw and swing) in pre-schools in the province. During twelve years cooperation, CYK conducted teacher trainings for 332 pre-school teachers in the province and provided sets of 12 play materials for 332 pre-school classes and 44 sets of out-of-door equipment to 44 pre-schools in the province were constructed by the community people. The produced play materials have been used by about 11,931 Pre-school children in the province. With the good cooperation from with Kandal provincial Office of Education, Youth and Sport, DOE officers and 2 local community people in Kandal province, CYK extend its childcare project by opening total ten village pre-schools in the province by March 2017. CYK has been cooperated with the ECCE department of MoEYS to print the pre-school teachers' guide books on poems and riddles and Khmer consonant posters in 2008 and a set of 16 children’s books and conduct a national level workshop on Technique of story telling for all POE officers from 24 municipality-provinces in 2010. Then they distributed those books for all government pre-school classes in all over the country. A set of childcare materials/games were also distributed for all 451 governments community pre-schools of FTI project (2008-2011) and 641 government community pre-schools of GPE project (2014-2016). With the assistance of Early Childhood Care and Education Department (ECCE) of Ministry of Education Youth and Sports, CYK has conducted workshop on “teaching/learning material/games usage & production” for all government pre-school teachers in 12 remote provinces by 2013 and follow up and evaluation on the usage and management of those materials. CYK opened two community pre-schools in Prek Sleng village, Prek Sleng commune and Ta Prom village, Beung Kyang commune, Kandal province in 2011, three village pre-schools in Lompong commune, Bati district, Takeo province in 2013, Three village pre-schools in Leuk Dek district and one in Ang Snuol distict, in 2014, one in Kien Svay district in 2015 and two in Ksach Kandal district, Kandal province in 2016. Among the opened eleven village pre-schools, one (Prasat community pre-school) was handover to the commune council and supporting committee in April 2016. 1-5. Program 1-5-1 Operation of Community Childcare Centers and Community and Village Pre-school 1-5-1a. Operation of Community Childcare Centers Two childcare centers have been continuously operated in Beung Kyang Commune, Kandal Stung district, Kandal province. Breakfast, lunch and snack were provided every day and supplementary food of boiled egg, soymilk and snack were also served for all children. CYK requested the parents to contribute for their children’s meal fee, from 1500 to 2,000 riel per day during these three years. About 160 children have chance to get early childhood care and education for their physical and mental development in both childcare centers and 92 graduates were sent to primary school from 2014 to 2016. The nutrition workshop were conducted every year by Cambodian nutritionist for BK &PT teachers, supporting committee members and some parents of both childcare teachers They learned the importance of nutritious food and actual practice of diet for children . CYK continued to cooperate with Sok Chea dental clinic and volunteer student of University of Health and Sciences to conduct the dental screening and treatment for the children at both childcare centers once every year. The parents’ workshops of dental care were also conducted by 3 childcare teachers to learn the importance for dental health care and practice tooth brushing at home. The monitoring and teachers’ technical meeting were conducted regularly once every month at both childcare centers to improve teaching quality as well as the environment for children. As a result, more children are happy to come to center every day and teachers are able to produce teaching and learning materials and their teaching methodology is improving. The joint meeting between BK supporting committee members and teachers of both childcare centers were conducted as well to strengthen their understanding and operative relationship. They discussed childcare project activities, problem happened, planning events including new idea for self reliance of both childcare centers in the future. From October 2015, the English class is continued conducting for both BK&PT children every week to attract more children to childcare center as well as to attract parent for more contribution for sustainability operation of both childcare centers. CYK offers the extra work of sewing cloth doll for 5 child minders of BK & PT childcare centers to generate more income in order to support of their living. 1-5-1b. Operation of Community and Village Pre-school CYK opened and operate total twelve community and village pre-schools in Kandal and Takeo province. Total 578 children have chance to get early childhood care and education for their physical and mental development in those community and village pre-schools and 288 children were sent to study at primary school from 2014 to 2016. At the end of March 2016, the management and operation of Prasat community pre-school was hand over to the supporting committee and Prek Sleng commune council and CYK continued to conduct the monitoring and teacher’s training once every three months from April 2016. The meeting, monitoring, and training were conducted regularly for all community and village pre-schools’ teachers to help them to strengthen their teachings capacity and to improve the school environment for children. The monthly technical meeting was held to discuss about the children’s situation and parents’ contribution in each pre-school, to solve the problem happened, and to plan activities for next month. 1-5-1c. Management of Childcare Centers and Community and Village Pre-schools The sixth mandate supporting committee members cooperated closely with teachers, authority and community people for self-management of two community childcare centers in Beung kyang community.