YSEALI Fall 2018 - Chiva Mork:

Chiva Photo
Participant Name: Chiva Mork
Project Location: Battambang, Cambodia
Program: Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Term: Fall 2018
Project Title: Sister Dreams
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Chiva Mork is a co-founder of Sister Dreams. She is the only child, among her 4 siblings, who graduated in higher. Currently, she is earning a master’s degree in Economics in Thailand. Chiva has always dreamed in seeing the youth in rural areas have better opportunities. Helping the get support from their families and their surrounding environments to go further and eventually give back to develop their community. She has led many community projects related to leadership, youth empowerment and has won mini-grants for Sister Dreams.

Organization Information: Sister Dream

Website: https://www.facebook.com/SisterDreams/

Sister Dreams aims to empower local youth especially, women to become great leaders. They want to see women have the ability to lead themselves, to achieve their own dreams, and give back to their community. Sister​ Dreams​ was created to empower local youth to have the better opportunities and bring back to theirs community.

Youth's from the rural parts of Northern Cambodia have to move to the city if they want the opportunity for a better education. They always face many problems in term of leadership, knowledge gap, soft skills, and information which lead them to have a high rate of losing the opportunity than the city students. Hence, Sister Dreams aim to empower rural youth by proving them leadership skill, information connections in center and provide them Standard English scholarship with Sister Dream's partner.