Our college students and graduates are all former residents of the Takeo Orphanage. Thanks to each one of our donors for your generous support to help fulfill Ron Abney’s dream: To enable every child from the Takeo Orphanage to attend college after graduating high school.
2022 Freshman Class
2022 Freshman Class
Students from School Year 2020- 2021
Seven students are enrolled to continue their studies for the school year 2020-2021:
- Two young women will graduate this year with degrees in Tourism
- One young man and two young women are in Year 3 of their studies in IT and Public Administration.
- Two young women are in Year 2, studying International Relations and Tourism.
We usually add two to four new freshmen in the late fall, after they complete their final year of high school.
GRADUATES 2013 – 2020
Since 2013, the Ron Abney Educational Fund has provided a college education for 43 children (17 girls and 26 boys) from the Takeo Orphanage. All students successfully completed their degrees and now hold professional jobs in Cambodia. Graduates include two doctors, a veterinarian, three nurses and many other professionals in law, IT, tourism, finance, management, English, accounting, French, economics, marketing, and electrical science. Approximately twenty students graduated prior to 2013.
2013 College Class
Click to read letter of gratitude to Donors from Nan Chamnap Leysak (M)
(Graduated 2013 – English)
Read Articles about RAEF graduates written by Ngeth Samnang:
July, 2017 – Phorn Srey No (F) (Graduated 2020 – Administration)
August, 2015– Meas Pagna (M) (Graduated 2016 – Animal Science DVM)
April, 2015 – Nhouv Sokha (F) (Graduated 2017 – Law)
January, 2015 – Roeng Samphors (M) (Graduated 2018 – IT)
October, 2014 – Ngeth Samnang (M) (Graduated 2014 – IT)
YouTube video of Mr. Soda interviewing some of our graduating seniors:
“This is Sien Samphors. She is one of the orphans from Takeo, Cambodia. My husband and I have been sponsoring her college education through the Ron Abney Educational Fund for 8 years. Next year she will graduate and become a doctor. When I went to Cambodia to visit, she called me mommy! I could not have been happier!”
—Lee Darter RAEF Facebook post June 2019
Dear Donors,
My name Ngeth Samnang I’m a former of Ron Abney Educational Fund now I have a good job with private company and have a family and have 2 kids.
I remembered during I lived in Takeo Orphanage center I met Mr. Ron Abney and Mr. Soda came to visited us. He brought many candy chocolate and toy for share to all kids lived there. Mr. Ron Abney he always offer many thing to Takeo Orphanage as garden, new bedding, English short course, room and specially he provided to student finished high school who lived in there have a chance can studied in university. In that Mr. Soda he always facilitate us in Cambodia he is so kind he help to arrangement to student in college for payment, study material at Phnom Penh and Province from Ron Abney Educational Fund. After that I graduated I have a good job and I can marriage and now I have two kids I’m very happy what I have today because of Mr. Ron Abney he make me have a good future. Finally I would like to say thank you so much to Mr. Ron, Mrs. Lee Darter, Mr. Soda and all donors for help student in Takeo Orphanage Center have good future.
We love you.
Written By: Ngeth Samnang June 2019
RAEF PRESIDENT MEETS WITH OUR STUDENTS
Photo of Lee, Pam, Orphanage Founder Kim Kemlang, and current and former RAEF university students.
Lee Darter, president of the Ron Abney Education Fund, and her mother-in-law Pam Shuman visited Cambodia in June of 2019 and enjoyed lunch with forty-seven of the sixty-three Takeo orphans either currently attending university and who have already graduated. They were deeply moved when they learned that several orphans had married each other after completing their university degrees and are now starting families of their own.