Non-Formal Education
The project initiated in 2000 under financial support of private donors and community contributions. In 2000, English classroom was built from bamboo, thatches and plants that didn't last a long time. In 2002, English classroom started to be decrepit and leak when raining. Seeing such situation, In 2002, Latter-Day Saint Charities funded a new classroom building and library equipped with school materials such as tables, desks, white boards, VCD, VCD player, text books etc. In 2006, the Asia Foundation donated more than one thousands of English-written books to the library of Khmer Association for Development and in 2007, Belgian volunteer students worked in voluntary manner to help this project. They donated some school materials to the project and children who studied English at the organization.

Goal
-	To provide the rural, poor children with both English and Khmer languages, reduce expenditure on costly private school, eradicate narcotic drug addiction prevent hard child labor, laborexploitation, sex trade, school abandon and distancep; children from gang.
-	To make the children become good citizen who will serve the national society.

Objectives
-	To open both Khmer and English classes which are attended by rural, poor children.
-	To teach the children both Khmer and English languages.

Three teachers volunteer to teach English. 7-22 year-old students attended the KAD's English class. The poorest and AIDS affected children and orphans were allowed to study English free of charge. Up to present time, 500 students have already completed English course provided by KAD. The purpose of setting up this project was in order to open opportunity to children were to poor to pay for English course at private English class, to help them get out of poverty, drug risks, prostitution and trafficking.  The text books used for teaching are Side by Side, Essential English, Headways and English for Children. In addition, video was used to show physical conversation action of English speaking people. There was a monthly competitive test and gift was given to the best students so that they would be motivated to study harder. Anyway, English is an international language used to communicate with each other among all the countries in the world. It is also important for Cambodian people who use English for their business and job.

In order to improve the children’s knowledge, KAD is planning to teach the Khmer literature and mathematics to hildren of both primary and junior high schools at grades 6 and 9 so that they get better knowledge prepared for their examination. In addition, they will be educated on moral, decency, tradition and custom so that they will avoid the use of narcotic drugs. In rural areas of Cambodia, each year several hundreds of children drop out from school due to poverty, they have to help their families in doing business to make money and some children abandoned their schooling
because they thought that they would be unemployed when they completed high school. And some other students stopped their study half-way because they fell into drug addiction and gang that misbehaved and committed bad deeds hated by the society. Due to low salary, the teachers encourage the students to attend private courses and sell cakes and candy to get some income additional to their low salary. The students must pay more money for private courses and those who are extremely poor, couldn’t afford to pay. The government policy related to the field of education is that junior high school will be built in each commune so that the people at lease complete grade 9. This policy aims to eliminate illiteracy. However, the rate of illiteratcy is still high due to primary school drop-out. Illiteracy classes also open for the illiterates but it isn’t in good operation.

In the educational sector, in the district, there are 47 primary schools with 32,566 students, 4 junior high schools with 4,255 students and 2 senior high schools with 5,901 students. When asked about educational sector, ten of twelve communes are still in need of teachers and school buildings for their children. The students have a lot of difficulty in their schooling because their families are very poor; the junior high schools are very far from their homes; some students gave up their schooling and joined the gangs with their friends; poor students have problems with food, school materials, uniforms and transportation means. In each year, around 462 students of primary school abandon their study at grades 1-6; around 405 students of junior high schools drop out from school at grades 7-9 and around 100 students of senior high schools give up their schooling at grade 10-12.

The reasons of dropping out are:
-	The students' parents are illiterate and don't care about their children's study.
-	To associate with bad friends.
-	The students' families are unable to support their study.
-	The students' parents stop them and allow them to help with work such as housework, farm-work, fishing, business etc.
-	To take care of their sick parents or grand parents.
-	To be shy of the classmates because unable to follow the lessons given by teachers.
-	To have a problem with transportation means.
-	Domestic violence breaks out.
-	To move to another place.
-	To find a job and get married.
-	The students are urged to go to school outside of the public school hours and required to pay money for these extra hours to be complementary to the low salary of teachers. When asked about illiteracy or little education, it is shown that there are the total of 6,012 illiterate people in the whole district (They have never gone to school), of which 3,660 are women and the rest are men and that there are 27,262 people with little education, of which 14,011 are women and the rest are men.