Join our circle of supporters
GTIS wouldn’t be here today without our community of friends, guardians and sponsors who believe that education can transform lives in rural Cambodia.
Friend of GTIS
Nurturing daily learning
Your gift helps provide essential textbooks, library reading materials, science supplies, and student club resources to children across all grades.
- Classroom stationery, exercise books and pencils
- Bilingual library reading books (English & Khmer)
- Arts, music, and sports club equipment
Student Guardian
Sponsoring a student’s education
Directly covers tuition fees, learning textbooks, uniform sets, and daily student welfare support in Kampong Speu.
- Full annual tuition scholarship for a student
- Two complete sets of tailored school uniforms and footwear
- Daily meal assistance and preventative healthcare checks
- Regular academic reports and progress updates
School Ambassador
Sustaining the mission & campus
A driving force behind the school’s long-term endurance, funding teacher development, computer/STEM science laboratories, and campus infrastructure.
- Computer laboratory & STEM science equipment
- Teacher training and faculty retention programmes
- Solar energy, clean drinking water and classroom maintenance
- Direct consultation with school leadership & annual briefing
“Education is the single greatest gift we can give a child in rural Cambodia. When you support a pupil here, you don’t merely teach one child — you uplift their entire family and community.”
Glad Tidings International School was established in 2007 with a clear Christian mission: to provide high-quality education and character formation where it is needed most. We combine rigorous academics with our core RICE values — Resilience, Integrity, Compassion, and Excellence.
Educating children in Kampong Speu
Before giving anything, it is worth knowing what the school actually does with its days.
Grades 1 to 12
Teaching and learning
The school opened in October 2007 with three pupils and four teachers. Children now join us in Grade 1 and stay through to Grade 12, sitting Cambodia’s national examinations at Grade 9 and again at Grade 12.
About the school
Learn . Serve . Lead
Character as well as marks
Alongside their lessons, students are taught resilience, integrity, compassion and excellence — the RICE values on our school crest — and are given real responsibility for one another through the student clubs.
Student clubs
Since 2007
Why the school is here
Glad Tidings Church, Singapore started the school with ICM Singapore with a simple aim: to raise the educational standards of the children in this part of Cambodia, because education is one of the ways a family’s life gets better.
Our historyWho your giving reaches
The school has never been paid for by its fees alone.
Fees kept within reach
From the day it opened the school kept its fees low — pegged at first at one US dollar per grade — so that what a family could pay was not what decided whether a child was taught. Fees were raised in 2024 to put the school back on a sound footing after the pandemic years.
Student scholarships & assistance
Every child deserves access to quality education. Donor contributions help provide scholarships, school supplies, and learning resources to ensure all children can continue their education without interruption.
Where the money comes from
The school is funded largely by supporters in Singapore and by Glad Tidings Church. That giving is what makes these scholarships possible, and it is what carried the school through the years when fees stopped coming in.
Talk to us about supporting the school
Tell us how you would like to help and we will write back. Only your name and an email address are needed.