Book Book Tuk Tuk drive to get kids to school
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:39 am
Lessons delivered by taxi, truck and boat
By Lucy Sherriff Global education
3 hours ago, 7 March 2018
If children can't get to lessons, a project in rural Cambodia is showing how lessons can be brought to them.
Tuk- tuks, the motorised rickshaws used across south-east Asia, are delivering textbooks and lessons to remote villages in a scheme known as "Book Book Tuk-Tuk".
It can be difficult and expensive for students to get an education in rural Cambodia and a school in Takhmau, south of Phnom Penh is experimenting with taking lessons directly to them.
Kuma Cambodia, a school founded in 2012 by the Norwegian Association for Private Initiative in Cambodia (NAPIC), decided to dispatch libraries on wheels to remote areas, to bring books to rural children.
The Book Book Tuk Tuk project, working with village chiefs to encourage participation, sends out tuk-tuks staffed by Cambodian volunteers, many of whom are just out of school themselves.
They educate families about why it's important to send children to school, as well as addressing social issues such as HIV awareness and concerns about gambling.
The tuk-tuk volunteers teach children maths, how to draw, read, sing, and tell them traditional Cambodian stories.
Although the libraries provide access to literature and advice, their primary function is to encourage parents to send their children to school.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43261544
By Lucy Sherriff Global education
3 hours ago, 7 March 2018
If children can't get to lessons, a project in rural Cambodia is showing how lessons can be brought to them.
Tuk- tuks, the motorised rickshaws used across south-east Asia, are delivering textbooks and lessons to remote villages in a scheme known as "Book Book Tuk-Tuk".
It can be difficult and expensive for students to get an education in rural Cambodia and a school in Takhmau, south of Phnom Penh is experimenting with taking lessons directly to them.
Kuma Cambodia, a school founded in 2012 by the Norwegian Association for Private Initiative in Cambodia (NAPIC), decided to dispatch libraries on wheels to remote areas, to bring books to rural children.
The Book Book Tuk Tuk project, working with village chiefs to encourage participation, sends out tuk-tuks staffed by Cambodian volunteers, many of whom are just out of school themselves.
They educate families about why it's important to send children to school, as well as addressing social issues such as HIV awareness and concerns about gambling.
The tuk-tuk volunteers teach children maths, how to draw, read, sing, and tell them traditional Cambodian stories.
Although the libraries provide access to literature and advice, their primary function is to encourage parents to send their children to school.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43261544