SIPAR

SIPAR is a French NGO working towards the reconstruction of Cambodia through education of the youth. The NGO’s mission is to fight illiteracy, as the Cambodian literacy rate is close to 55%. The NGO employees 62 Cambodians in Phnom Penh, and French people with various volunteers in its French headquarters located in Versailles.

History

Created in 1982 with a goal of welcoming refugees from the Cambodian war.

Goals

The SIPAR builds school libraries, to allow children to learn to read. Its members also work on developing libraries on the move using buses to reach the most isolated inhabitants of country. Since 2000, the SIPAR publishes books in Khmer.

Key Figures
  • 230 libraries were built and opened in primary schools, with more than 2,000 books in Khmer available,
  • 2,000 librarians were trained,
  • 12,000 teachers trainees initiated
  • 10 projects of communal educational services development
  • 8 Mobile Libraries are used to bring books to the poorest,
  • 26 centers of education for all (CEFA: commune libraries) were opened in rural area allowing people to have access to different reading materials (books and other educational tools) and to share their experiences,
  • 11 prison libraries
  • 95 titles for young people in Khmer were published in more than 1,000,000 copies over the past 10 years,
  • 90,000 books were donated to different provincial teacher training colleges in Cambodia.
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