From Classrooms to Jobs How Cambodia is Supporting Students in Remote Areas

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2026/07/29/from-classrooms-to-jobs-how-cambodia-is-supporting-students-in-remote-areas?cid=ECR_E_NewsletterWeekly_EN_EXT&deliveryName=DM287642 In rural Cambodia, the surest route out of poverty runs through a classroom. Yet for tens of thousands of children across the country's most remote provinces, simply reaching that classroom has always been the first—and often greatest—obstacle. Two schools, in two very different provinces, show what happens when that barrier is removed: students stay in school, teachers grow, and young people gain pathways to better jobs.