Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders

As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter of noodle vendors was accepted by the Harpswell Foundation to take up a place at their dormitory for promising young women studying in Phnom Penh. …

Holly Robertson
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