Computer School

A Computer School was opened in 1999 and is a huge success. You should see how these children soak up whatever is available to learn. Our youngest are learning the paintbrush program to get them used to the computers for their real studies. We have classes 6 days a week and the children are never late! We have crashed one or two computers though, with the children experimenting how many games they could load on machines that could not accommodate them… We teach Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop and the older children are starting to learn Access, Computer Repair, Maintenance and Networking, Graphic Arts, Adobe Illustrator and AutoCAD Courses, to prepare them for the kinds of jobs they will seek when they leave.

All this means that we are able to get the children excellent employment in the computer field, earning them much higher salaries than would normally be the case if they didn’t have such good skills.

We have one Sunrise graduate who is working with Cambodia’s largest internet service provider on the help desk and designing websites. All this he was able to do with what he had learnt in the Sunrise Computer School.

Another boy is working as an architectural draftsman, designing offices and hotels using the AutoCAD program that we taught here.

And more recently, another Graduate has been offered an Internship with the ANZ Bank at the head office in Phnom Penh in their IT section.

Marvellous success stories!

Our computer teacher earns US$250 a month – it would be wonderful if we could find an annual sponsor for his salary – a total of US$3000.

Our first lot of donated computers came from Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Bank), then from Cathay Pacific Airlines, followed by the Hong Kong International School and ING Insurance in Hong Kong and our latest kind supporters who sent us new computers were Hewlett Packard in Singapore. Thanks to all!