រៀនអានអក្សរនៅអាយុ ៤២ ឆ្នាំ

Sreypov never went to school as a child. At 42, sitting in a small evening class in Pursat, she wrote her own name for the first time.

KAPE's adult literacy programme reaches caregivers who missed their own education — often women who left school to work or marry young. The classes run in the evening, in the village, so that learning fits around farming and family.

Two generations learning at once

The impact reaches beyond the learners themselves. Parents who can read are more likely to keep their own children in school and to help with homework. Sreypov now reads simple storybooks aloud to her grandchildren each night.

My grandchildren look at me differently now. And I look at myself differently too.

For Sreypov, the classes were never only about letters on a page. "It is dignity," she says simply.