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Help A New Bible Reader Feel ‘Seen. Valuable. Loved.’

Across rural Cambodia many people long to read the Bible but have never had the chance to learn. Children trace letters in dust. Adults hide their inability to read. Yet in these same communities a gentle miracle is happening. Through simple, Bible-based literacy classes, people are discovering their first words and encountering the hope of Scripture. 

Your gift today can be part of that miracle. 

The adults and children learning to read using the Bible are eager to go deeper.

In makeshift classrooms- church halls, wooden huts, even under trees, children gather with their parents. They sit cross-legged on bare floors, clutching simple workbooks. Both young and old fingers trace the lines. 
Your gift will keep new Bible readers growing—and sharing God’s Word.

3 Days Appeal Stat Cambodia

Three days’ wages is what a single Bible can 
cost in Cambodia. For many Cambodian Christians, owning a Bible is not simply a question of availability but of affordability. With poverty pressing hardest in rural communities, families must focus on daily survival long before they can think about buying a Bible.

1 5perc Appeal Stat Cambodia

Only ~1.5% of people in Cambodia currently own or can access a Bible, leaving the vast majority without God’s Word in their hands. The Bible Access List reports that the country is now facing a significant shortage, with an immediate need for 50,000 to 100,000 additional Bibles to meet the requests of churches and new Christians across the nation

73 1perc Appeal Stat Cambodia

Around 73.1% of Cambodia’s population live in rural areas, where the education gap remains significant, especially among poorer households and minority communities compared with urban regions. This inequality affects not only children but entire generations, influencing literacy levels, future prospects and the ability to engage fully with written materials, including the Bible.

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Moeun’s Story

As a child, Moeun Hul lived through the terror of the Khmer Rouge. Teachers were murdered. Schools disappeared. Literacy vanished. Then someone invited her to a Bible Society literacy class.

These Bible-based literacy classes reach around 6,000 people every year—people who have never dared believe they could learn to read. For many, the very first sentence they ever read comes from the Bible.

Today, Moeun is a teacher herself, helping children and adults discover something she once thought impossible: the ability to read God’s Word. And whenever a child hesitates, she kneels beside them and whispers: “Jesus hears your prayer. No one is too small.”

Your support makes stories like Moeun’s possible.

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How your gift helps

When you give today, you help ensure that those who have learned to read the Bible can continue discovering its life changing message – and share it with others. Your support enables:

  • Bible based literacy classes so children, parents and grandparents can learn to read using 
    Scripture.
  • Simple audio devices and workbooks so whole families can follow along as God’s Word is read 
    aloud.
  • Bibles placed into the hands of new readers and new believers who simply cannot afford one.
  • Local staff, volunteers and church leaders to walk alongside growing Christians as they explore 
    how the Bible speaks into every part of life.

Every donation – large or small – helps share the Bible where it is needed most, turning first hesitant letters into confident reading of God’s promises.

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Will you help ensure that no child goes hungry - physically or spiritually?

“Right now, someone in Cambodia is waiting. A child whispering her first letters. A father longing to teach his family. A grandmother praying for courage to continue learning.

Your gift today can put a Bible into their hands. Your prayers can strengthen them. Your kindness can open the way to faith. Will you help share the Bible and transform a life?.”

— Elaine Duncan, Chief Executive