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Attitude Centre for Education

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About ACE

The Attitude Centre for Education (ACE) is a local NGO founded in Phnom Penh in February 2009 and registered with the Ministry of Interior in May 2011. ACE was founded by Mr. Saing Sokchea, an experienced leadership trainer. Sokchea spent several years providing leadership training to youth and adults in slum areas such as Dey Krahorm, Beoung Kak Lake and the Andong in Phnom Penh as well as in many remote areas across Cambodia.

• Mission Statement

  To provide excellent leadership training for Cambodians with limited resources and thereby create a generation of leaders with concern for all Cambodians and the skills to lead and help them.

• How is ACE Unique?

  Many NGOs in Cambodia already provide leadership training, but their programs are targeted towards, and only affordable to, middle and upper income Cambodians. This lack of inclusion of Cambodia’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens has resulted in the main beneficiaries of these programs being the wealthy. This furthers entrenches the wealth disparity between the rich and poor,

• How is ACE Unique II?

  as those with means seek to maintain systems which reinforce their privilege and thus further impoverish the poor. ACE is also unique by providing a very tightly integrated program where students not only learn leadership training, but live in a self-governed environment and gain practical leadership experience on a daily basis.

• ACE Programs

  1. Leadership Training Centre (LTC) The LTC is a unique facility that is currently home to 13 students. The centre provides the opportunity for marginalized Cambodian youth from remote provinces and urban slum communities to attend university through the provision of housing, scholarships, leadership training, and a wide variety of programs and life skills activities.

• ACE Programs II

  Bridging the gap between a theoretical university education and the daunting task of obtaining gainful employment, the LTC is providing its residents with critical life skills and applicable educational experiences in order for the students to enter the workforce with confidence.

• Activities & Services

  • A leadership training based, self-governance model for all residents 
  • Weekly leadership seminars on conflict resolution, mental health, job seeking    
  • Extensive life skills training and programs              
  • English and computer classes              
  • Expert Guest speakers

• Support for Poor Students

  • Dormitory housing at the LTC             
  • Bicycles for transport to and from classes              
  • University Scholarships

• 2. Rudi Boa Centre (RBC)

  Rudi Boa Center is a learning centre 22 km from Phnom Penh providing an array of grass roots level education classes and services for children 5-18 years of age. RBC is situated in a slum ‘relocation’ community, meaning nearly all of its 1500 impoverished families were forcibly evicted from their homes in downtown Phnom Penh in order to allow for commercial development.

• Rudi Boa Centre (RBC)

  Relocation communities are notoriously poor, and lack schools, health services, access to employment, and general infrastructure of any kind. RBC provides grass roots level education classes, critical life skills, and opportunities to 300 children in the relocation site. Classes and programs are run from 8:00 am - 7:30 pm, with a daily attendance of approximately 300 children.

• Programs and classes at RBC

  • Leadership skills, positive attitudes and child protection
  • Job seeking skills
  • Sanitation & basic health (hygiene, de-worming, first aid, dental care)
  • English and Khmer classes              
  • Prevention of domestic violence, mental health and counselling sessions
  • Child rights and welfare              
  • Sports and recreation              
  • Khmer Music and Dance

• 3. Sing-Cam Porridge for Hope Program (SCPHP)

  Established in May 2011, the SCPHP provides a bowl of porridge to more than 200 extremely impoverished children aged 5-16 years, who live in a slum ‘relocation’ community and in Phnom Penh. The porridge is served twice monthly, with the purpose of alleviating the burden for parents who work tirelessly to provide for their children. The program takes place in the Rudi Boa Centre, Wat Than slum.

• 4- Sing-Cam Centre (SCC)

  Sing-Cam Centre will be established in the end of September 2011, at Wat Than slum community which is located in Phnom Penh only 5 minutes walk from the Russian Embassy. We will provide English, Health and Hygiene, Sport, Art & craft, Leadership, Khmer Culture classes to more than 100 kids’ age from 5 to 18 years old. The classes start from 8am to 7:30pm.

• 5- The Weekend Training Program (WTP)

  Established in April 2011, the WTP provides training courses on topics such as leadership, positive attitudes, communication, job seeking, interactive teaching methodology, marketing skills and how to be a professional business planner. The programs are held at the LTC on the weekends and are conducted by qualified and experienced national and international trainers.