helping those in need
The Shinta Mani Foundation helps young people in Cambodia have better lives by giving them education, skills, and support. They provide free training for jobs like cooking and cleaning in hotels, helping them find good work. The foundation also supports children by giving them school supplies, uniforms, and better classrooms so they can learn more easily.
Young people can take lessons to build confidence and learn important life skills. The foundation also cares for their health by giving them healthy meals and medical check-ups. They teach traditional Cambodian arts and crafts, helping young people find jobs and keep their culture alive.
For those who want to start small businesses, the foundation gives money and training to help them succeed. They also teach about protecting nature, like planting trees and cleaning the environment.
The foundation helps young Cambodians build a brighter future and support their families and communities.
- Skills: Things you learn to do well, like cooking, reading, or fixing things.
- Support: Help or encouragement you give to someone.
- To provide: To give something that someone needs.
- School supplies: Things students use for school, like pencils, books, and bags.
- Confidence: Feeling sure of yourself and your abilities.
- Life skills: Important things you learn to help you in daily life, like solving problems or talking to others.
- To care: To help someone or something and make sure they are okay.
- Check-up: A medical visit to make sure you are healthy.
- Crafts: Making things with your hands, like painting, sewing, or building.
- To keep alive: To stop something from disappearing or dying.
- To succeed: To do well and achieve your goal.
- To protect: To keep something safe from harm.
- Environment: The world around us, like nature, trees, and animals.
- Bright: Full of hope, happiness, or good ideas.
- Community: A group of people who live, work, or spend time together.
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Correct or incorrect?
- Skills are things you learn to do well, like cooking or reading.
- Support means helping someone when they need it.
- To provide means to give something someone needs.
- School supplies are toys kids use for fun.
- Confidence means feeling scared about what you can do.
- Life skills are things that help you every day, like solving problems.
- To care means ignoring someone who needs help.
- A check-up is when you visit a doctor to stay healthy.
- Crafts are only games that kids play.
- The environment is the world around us, like nature, trees, and animals.
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You know the answers? More than one may be correct:
1. What are skills?
a) Things you learn to do well.
b) Playing games for fun.
c) Cooking, reading, or fixing things.
d) Watching TV.
2. What does support mean?
a) Helping someone in need.
b) Ignoring someone who asks for help.
c) Giving encouragement.
d) Making someone feel unimportant.
3. What does „to provide“ mean?
a) To give something someone needs.
b) To take things away from someone.
c) To help by giving items or help.
d) To forget to bring what is needed.
4. What are school supplies?
a) Pencils and books.
b) Uniforms for school.
c) Toys for playing during breaks.
d) Bags for carrying school items.
5. What is confidence?
a) Feeling sure about what you can do.
b) Being afraid to try new things.
c) Believing in yourself.
d) Doubting your abilities.
6. What are life skills?
a) Skills for solving problems.
b) Important things for daily life.
c) Playing games or sports.
d) Talking and working with others.
7. What does it mean to care?
a) To help someone or something.
b) To protect and keep someone safe.
c) To ignore what happens to others.
d) To make sure someone is okay.
8. What is a check-up?
a) A visit to the doctor to stay healthy.
b) A time to clean your room.
c) A way to check if you are healthy.
d) A visit to the park.
9. What are crafts?
a) Making things with your hands.
b) Activities like sewing or painting.
c) Watching movies or TV.
d) Building or creating something.
10. What is the environment?
a) Nature, trees, and animals around us.
b) The world we live in.
c) Just buildings and cars.
d) Air, water, and land.
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10 multiple-choice questions – more than one answer may be correct:
1. What does the Shinta Mani Foundation help young people in Cambodia with?
a) Giving them jobs
b) Providing skills, education, and opportunities
c) Giving them food
d) Building houses
2. What kind of jobs does the Shinta Mani Foundation offer training for?
a) Cooking and housekeeping
b) Computer programming
c) Teaching
d) Building construction
3. What does the foundation give to children to help them go to school?
a) Free food
b) School supplies, uniforms, and better classrooms
c) Money for their families
d) Playtime activities
4. What can young people join to become more confident?
a) Sports teams
b) Workshops to learn leadership and life skills
c) Singing classes
d) Movie nights
5. What kind of health programs does the Shinta Mani Foundation offer?
a) Free medicine
b) Nutritious meals and medical care
c) Free gym memberships
d) Regular exercise programs
6. What does the foundation teach to preserve Cambodian culture?
a) Traditional arts and crafts
b) Modern art
c) Dance and music
d) Language lessons
7. What does the foundation give to people with business ideas?
a) Money and business training
b) Free computers
c) Business clothes
d) Loans and support
8. What does the foundation teach about the environment?
a) How to plant trees and clean up the area
b) How to build houses
c) How to use less electricity
d) How to plant flowers
9. What is the main goal of the Shinta Mani Foundation?
a) To build schools in Cambodia
b) To help young Cambodians create better futures for themselves and their communities
c) To send children to other countries for education
d) To teach English to all Cambodians
10. How does the Shinta Mani Foundation help young Cambodians?
a) By giving them money
b) By giving them skills, education, and opportunities
c) By providing free vacations
d) By offering them free houses
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Can you answer, without looking at the text?
1. What does the Shinta Mani Foundation help young people with?
2. What kind of jobs does the foundation help people learn?
3. What does the foundation give to children for school?
4. What can young people learn in the workshops?
5. What does the foundation give to help with health?
6. What does the foundation teach to keep Cambodian culture?
7. What does the foundation give to people who want to start a business?
8. What does the foundation teach about the environment?
9. What is the main goal of the Shinta Mani Foundation?
10. How does the foundation help young people in Cambodia?
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