November 21, 2023

How to Celebrate Cambodia’s Water Festival Bon Oum Touk!

For the PEPY team, there are few holidays we look forward to more than Bon Oum Touk. This multi-day festival means many things to us. It […]
August 8, 2022

Meet Sotheareak, Former PEPY Scholar & Future Public Speaking Leader!

At PEPY, we believe it is important to keep in touch with our alumni and scholars to follow their personal and professional journeys. We constantly offer […]
July 19, 2022

Student Interviews: What Does Leadership Mean to you?

At PEPY, we focus on developing the hard and soft skills of youth in our programs. Hard skills are technical skills that an individual needs to […]
June 20, 2022

Meet PEPY Volunteer Tommy: Bringing New Techniques and Ideas to the Learning Center

Since May 3rd the PEPY team, especially our English Learning Project (ELP) Teacher, Soury, has had the pleasure of working with Tommy. Tommy is PEPY’s first […]
May 15, 2022

Celebrating Khmer New Year: Removed Restrictions Providing our Community Hope for 2022

In early 2022, there was a lot of uncertainty in the air. COVID restrictions started to be lifted in many countries while many Cambodians were worried […]
March 7, 2022

Bong Watd: Looking Back As She Completes Her First Year as Executive Director

The PEPY family has worked under the leadership of many talented directors since our official emergence in 2007. Khouth Sochampawatd, who took over as Executive Director […]
February 14, 2022

PEPY Youth Facing Unemployment: Students Coping with the Impact of COVID-19

PEPY Empowering Youth has been an integral part of the Cambodian employment sector since 2015. Prior to COVID-19, we have been successful at outputting many capable […]
January 24, 2022

PEPY Team Reflections: Coming, Growing, Going

At PEPY, we believe all team members provide valuable insight to help us improve and grow as an organization. By giving them opportunities to reflect on […]
November 1, 2021

Why Supporting Your Community Matters: Meet Our COVID-19 Local Sponsors

When the COVID-19 outbreaks started, we were fearful of how we could continue our programs and support our team and youth. For many organizations, the fundraising […]
September 27, 2021

Investing in Staff: How Focusing Resources On Your Team Helps Your Organization Thrive

For many organizations operating in community development, most of the funds and donations raised are rightly allocated to projects and services. However, we would also contend […]
August 16, 2021

From PEPY Scholars to International Artists: Meet Chhunly and Chantuo

PEPY endeavors to be an organization that helps rural Cambodian youth achieve all of their future career goals and plans. We do this by not only […]
May 31, 2021

PEPY & COVID: The Importance of Community & Lessons Learned

Just like many other individuals and organizations around the world, the PEPY team was really nervous and concerned for our community at the beginning of the […]