ABOUT OUR OBJECTIVE ORGANISATION
Our Objective Organization (O.O.O.) was founded in 2006, and is a Khmer managed and operated NGO, registered with the Ministry of Interior, and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education Youth and Sports.
O.O.O has a Main Center located in Takeo Town in Takeo Province, Cambodia (approximately 75 Km from Phnom Penh) where the center is able to accommodate live-in students from the provinces, non-live in part time training, and an administration headquarters. O.O.O. also operates several smaller school branches in other rural areas.
O.O.O’s strategy directly challenges the personal factors that perpetuate poverty and unemployment, seeking to replace them with more positive and productive characteristics.
The aim of O.O.O is to provide students with English competency skills and a more positive and constructive set of attitudes and behaviors, together with effective job skills. As confident and educated youth, they can make a significant contribution to the reconstruction and development of Cambodian society and the economy.
The target group is youth from poor families in the rural areas, both boys and girls (primarily school drop outs) from the ages of 13 years to 25 years old.
O.O.O recognizes the importance of monitoring and evaluation of its programs and continuously monitors their effectiveness, not just to identify and correct weaknesses but also to recognize and replicate its strengths whilst assessing emerging issues over time. This is undertaken with programmed evaluation ‘lessons learnt’ meetings between administration, teaching staff, volunteers.
O.O.O is successful because it utilizes the skills of youths who were previous O.O.O graduates. These youth not only understand the background of O.O.O and students attitudes, but they also realize and practice the benefits the program has brought them e.g. a peer-to-peer education system, so that its approaches and messages have immediate credibility with the students.
Some of the special features of the O.O.O are its:
- strictly gender balanced enrolment system - equal enrolments of boys and girls;
- live in program where new found attitudes are put into practice every day;
- human development and empowerment, life skills and personal value focus as part of the overall program;
- significant involvement by graduates in the ongoing operation and functioning of the school, some becoming teachers with in the organization both in the main center and in smaller rural based branches;
- student friendly, non formal education package; and
- youth awareness of the relevant social issues;
- Community involvement - students often perform community services during the program, thus creating a culture they are not passive recipients of the program but are repaying society for the training that they
are receiving.
O.O.O. activities are financed through private donations, support from volunteer organizations and private volunteers, fees from live in and part time students students, carrying out awareness raising and survey work for the wider community and community organizations (fee – fee basis).
STAFF
Co-Executive Directors
Mr Houn Hoeun
Mr.Huy Sambo
Management Team
Mr. Noun Saveth
Miss. Phon Phalla
Miss Sok Dany
Mr Phong Pheak
Mr Chum Ket
Mr Non Senghun
Senior Advisors
Ms Jennie Graham
Miss Candice Tomlinson
Board Members
Mr. Pich Setha
Mr. Huy Sambo
Mr. Bun Rour
Mr. Ou Sovandara
Mr. EL Nimeth