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UNESCO pushing for female workers’ literacy

To mark International Literacy Day today, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is encouraging Cambodia to put more effort into improving the literacy of Cambodian women, especially those working in garment factories, to improve their life.

Cambodian author writes to inspire youths

In some places, literacy and the love for reading are beginning to slowly fade away. In the age of technological advancements and numerous distractions, people’s attention is being drawn away from books and literature that help enrich the mind and soul.

Literacy learning in factories a success

Government, NGO, and factory representatives met yesterday to disseminate the outcomes of the project “Reading & Learning at the workplace, Library learning centers in the garment factories”.

PM stresses literacy and lifelong learning

Prime Minister Hun Sen called on National Institutes to pay special attention to literacy and education, both in the formal and informal systems, as it will empower people to improve their quality of life and national development.

Literacy training continues for garment workers amid C-19

More than 2,000 garment workers in 12 provinces have attended the Factory Literacy Programme (FLP) to acquire basic functional literacy skills and to empower them to better understand their rights and responsibilities since 2016.

Enhancing literacy skills among garment workers

UNESCO and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) will implement a literacy programme in 11 factories across seven provinces this year to increase employee skills in the workplace.

Digitising Cambodia’s economic future

A comprehensive digital economy strategy and a five-year road map should be developed in Cambodia to incentivise investment in digital infrastructure.

Empowering poor children with financial literacy

With the theme ‘Maybank Cares – Impact, Engage and Empower’, Maybank Cambodia rolled out its financial literacy campaign at five different locations in the country aiming at promoting prudent management of finances among youngsters.

PM marks National Literacy Day

PM urges all ministries to continue work on improving literacy in order to achieve sustainable development goals by 2030.

Maybank’s financial literacy programme

After the successful completion of its pilot phase of the Maybank Cashville Kidz Financial Literacy Programme in Cambodia, Maybank Foundation last Saturday carried out its commitment to expand the programme under Phase 2 to public schools in the country.

Youths Take Part in Community Development

A group of university students from the “Drop Everything and Read” project (D.EAR) and from “Youth for Green” (YFG) will lead the field trip to the Preah Sihanouk Province.