Rockstar I-Grow!

Over the past month, our Founder Victoria has been busy conducting problem solving workshops for both students and teachers in Cambodia.  We have named this program:  I-Grow. I-Grow is an active-based learning experience focusing on life skills.  The first ever I-Grow was for problem solving and we shared it with 150 deserving children in our district of Bakong.

​With the overwhelmingly positive feedback about the workshop and its experience, the Ministry has requested PeopleStories to train their school directors too!  We were pleasantly surprised and pleased to be able to share the power of I-Grow. 

Another exciting experience is to upskill a group of passionate teachers to become facilitators!  This really shifted the paradigm from teaching to learning!  And we are pleased to see a new group of facilitators are so ready to take on I-Grow and have the opportunity to showcase their facilitation skills in front of their senior colleagues in the educational field.. 

Teacher Pich who is currently a primary school teacher at our partner school was one of the +facilitators for I-Grow. When asked about how he felt about taking part in I-Grow and becoming a facilitator, Teacher Pich replied “I initially was not confident in my abilities as a facilitator, but some discussion and experience, I enjoyed the process as one. Being a facilitator helped me interact more with the school directors and I learn a lot from them. I also became much more courageous through this!”​

“The most memorable part of the experience was about working in a team with the school director. As a team, we had to learn how to work well together and be receptive to the opinions and suggestions of all members.” Teacher Pich shared. “Hence, it was a good project that encouraged self-improvement and helped develop my knowledge and skills.”​

School Director Huok Sokhann at Trapeang Po primary school located in Bakong district, Siem Reap province, shared with so much enthusiastic, “One thing that I enjoyed the most from the workshop today is about the way how to prepare the process of the program especially the materials used for this learning. It is like a new knowledge for me to learn and share this to my teachers at the school I think it is also very useful for us to resolve every problem we face at the workplace and also in living. I really like the workshop today so much if there is any of it next time, I will join again.”

​We are so glad to hear how Teacher Pich, Director Sokhann and so many others have benefitted from I-Grow!  We can’t wait to provide more teachers and students with this valuable experience. 

If you would like to support our cause and help to improve education for both our students and teachers in Cambodia, you can donate here! Otherwise, we wish all our supporters a fantastic month ahead!

Story written by: Volunteer Zeleen