New School Year Enrollment Campaign

New School Year Enrollment Campaign


On October 14, 2014, Khmer Association for Development (KAD) celebrated a New School Year Enrollment Campaign in the purpose of alerting the community people of the arrival of enrollment days so that they would send their children to school for enrollment. On that occasion, KAD’s programs were also promoted to rural areas. The KAD’s students joined the campaign that was parading in two Hyundai trucks across more than twenty villages of four communes. The students distributed the advertisement leaflets to the villagers and disseminated the information in terms of the school enrollment through sound systems and they also carried different slogans written on both big and small banners. Some of state-run schools also organized this type of campaign in order to increase the number of enrollment. However, it is noticed that a very small percentage of children are still not enrolled when they reach the age 6 or 7 because they are thought to be too young or too small to go to school. Sometimes, they go to school just for a very short while and then abandon it because of various factors, for instance, lack of transport means, lack of chaperone sending them to school, non-confidence in the state school system and limited attention of parents.