Mission

Throughout the world less than one third of the children enrolled in schools are girls. Because of this observation, the journalist Tina Kieffer decided to found a charity called “Toutes à l’école” in 2005. The mission is to provide high-level education to under-privileged girls and to allow them to get jobs in the future where they can enjoy freedom and dignity. Message from Tina Kieffer the Founder-President of “Toutes à l’école”: “Toutes à l'école” chose Cambodia in 2006 for its first school, Happy Chandara. "This first pilot school will be a blueprint for others which will follow, so that women with degrees will be able to influence the economic and political environments of their countries. “Toutes à l’école” has decided to give priority to the education of girls. Although we defend education as a fundamental right for all children in the world, whatever their sex, it appeared urgent to improve the immense unfairness that girls undergo and which makes them victims for life.” Dummy alt text « Toutes à l’école has decided to give priority to girls’ education. » Tina Kieffer This pilot school, which is based 12 kilometres from Phnom Penh, today has 730 students. Each year nearly one hundred young girls start their schooling at Happy Chandara. A vocational training centre will open at the start of the 2013 school year. All the students will be followed closely, up to when they either choose to go to university or when they get their first job.