The Association envisions that Indigenous peoples have access to quality education, foster strong solidarity, and achieve prosperity. It is committed to safeguarding their rights to use and protect their land, natural resources, culture, traditions, and identity, ensuring they can live with dignity and harmony on their ancestral lands.
Our Mission
To capacity and strengthen generation of skilled and knowledgeable Indigenous youths who can effectively address challenges and promote resilience within their communities in Cambodia. To empower Indigenous youth in Cambodia to develop visionary and spiritual leadership qualities that inspire and uplift their communities.
Core Values
Representation:
We present the voice of our members. We speak what members wants us to speak in to the public. We respect, protect and support the needs of our members.
Honest and Brave:
We dear to speak for what we do and what we want with a soft and gentle manner to get public awareness and recognition.
Unity:
We are being good with each other to promote and protect our culture and being with elder to support the needs of our communities.
Adaptive:
We are developing our capacity and mindset while preserving our traditional knowledge.
Helping and Respecting each other:
We respect and value all the differences in Indigenous peoples’ traditions, and we help to promote the weakest Indigenous groups.
Promoting Scientific education and traditional education:
We strive to build public recognition of higher education for our members, as well as Indigenous Peoples’ elders’ recognition of knowledge from our Indigenous Peoples elders.