Welcome to
Aspire School - Homestay & Volunteer
Coming Home ! Every time come back, it feels like come home to our second family. We got home carrying a backpack full of unforgettable memories, and I can’t explain how much we love this place – or these lovely people. Thank you to every single member of the Aspire Family for making this place so special. You have a place in our heart forever.
Aspire School
ASPIRE Training & Education is a non-profit, volunteer-run school and home for poor, homeless, and orphaned children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Since 2012, it has provided free education, life skills, and a safe living environment through the support of donations and volunteers.
Volunteers play a key role in teaching and engaging children in activities like English, art, music, and traditional Khmer dance. All contributions help cover basic needs like food and electricity.
Everyone at ASPIRE lives simply and shares a strong sense of community, working together to build brighter futures for the children.
EDUCATION OF THE WHOLE CHILD
Bilingual Learning Through the Hands, Heart and Head
Learn at Aspire School
The students of Aspire school all come from backgrounds of extreme poverty and deprivation. Their ages range between 5-16 years old. The weekly schedule runs for five days (20 hours per week) from Monday to Friday in the morning (8:00 AM – 11:00 AM) and in the afternoon (1:00 PM – 5:00 PM).
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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8:00 AM – 10:00 AM |
English |
English |
English |
Khmer Traditional Dancing |
Arts & Crafts |
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2:00 PM – 4:00 PM |
English |
English |
English |
Khmer Traditional Dancing |
Arts & Crafts |
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of trust, and a feeling of responsibility–these three forces are the very nerve of education.
Our Location
National Road 6, Trang Village, Kandaek Commune, Prasat Bakong District, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.
Donations are essential to us for feeding the children this time
- Donation
Sheeraz, Morag and lovely children in Australia !
I am Mr. Sean Samnang a Founder – Director of ASPIRE SCHOOL for free education for all children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I would like to extend my heart full of gratitude and appreciated to Sheeraz, Morag and their lovely children from Australia who is sponsoring $2,040 US to cover for a teacher’s wage in during one year from November 2025 until December 2026.
- Donation
A lovely family from Canada !
I am Mr. Sean Samnang a Founder – Director of ASPIRE SCHOOL for free education for all children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I would like to extend my heart full of gratitude and appreciated for a lovely family to support the children of Aspire.
- Donation
All Lovely Van June’s Family (Eng Sloe Ah Thoe Sim Rong and Ee Family) in Singapore !
I am Mr. Sean Samnang a director – Founder of ASPIRE SCHOOL for free education for all children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I would like to extend my heart full of gratitude and appreciated for all lovely Van Jun’s family (Eng Sloe Ah Thoe Sim Rong and Ee Family) in Singapore who is donated $1.773 US to cover cost 20 bags of rices, sugars, garlic, eggs, soy sauces, salts, task powers, noodles, oils, chilly sauces and some cash donations for electricity bills, teacher’s wage and one weeks food to support the children of Aspire.
- Donation
Jessie Elaine Hunt, Australia !
I am Mr. Sean Samnang a director – Founder of ASPIRE SCHOOL for free education for all children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I would like to extend my heart full of gratitude and appreciated to Jessie Elaine Hunt (Australia) who is donated $1,000 US to support the children and two months of teacher’s wage in during her volunteering one week at Aspire from 1st – 7th of September 2025.
- Donation
Dave and Helen Gay Peters in Uk
I am Mr. Sean Samnang a director – Founder of ASPIRE SCHOOL for free education for all children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I would like to extend my heart full of gratitude and appreciated to Dave and Helen Gay Peters in Uk who is donating $1.000 US per month to cover cost for loan of Aspire housing.
- Donation
Michele Gozzelino (Research Institute in Turin)
I am Mr. Sean Samnang a director – Founder of ASPIRE SCHOOL for free education for all children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I would like to extend my heart full of gratitude and appreciated to Michele Gozzelino who is working for a research institute in Turin, Italy (INRIM, https://www.inrim.it/en) to donate $500 US per year for running cost of project.