Gender Justice through Learning and Reflecting on SGBV
In Samlot district, Battambang, it was not a teacher or an NGO worker who led the conversation - it was the students themselves.
The Youth Friendly Club organized an awareness-raising session on gender-based violence and its impacts for 32 community members, the majority of them young women. Drawing on what they had learned through Kdei Karuna's coaching and their own research, club members facilitated a discussion that connected the history of the Khmer Rouge era to the realities of their own community today.
For participants, the session opened up new understanding - and new questions.
"I learned clearly about the terms of sex, gender, and sexual and gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge and its impacts on the survivors."
- Sav Sok Srey Neang, Grade 10, Samlot High School
"Although I have learned about this topic before, this is new knowledge for me."
- Soth Visal, Grade 10, Samlot High School
