PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- A Cambodian teacher is among top 10 finalists of the Varkey Foundation after being shortlisted from 50 teachers representing 26 countries, according to Global Teacher Prize on Thursday.
Neang Phalla, director of Kruosar Thmey School in Phnom Penh, will compete with other nine fanalists -- Azizullah Royesh (Afghanistan), Kiran Bir Sethi (India), Guy Etienne (Haiti), Jacqueline Jumbe-Kahura (Kenya), Nancie Atwell (USA), Richard Spencer (UK), Stephen Ritz (USA), Naomi Volain (USA) and Madenjit Singh (Malaysia) -- for $1 million Global Teacher Prize.
The winner will be announced on 16 March 2015.
The 10 finalists will be joining the first ever Global Teacher Prize award ceremony at the Global Education and Skills Forum on 15 March in Dubai, Global Teacher Prize said on its website.
Phalla has been a teacher, school director and country-wide coordinator for the Education for Blind program in Cambodia for over 20 years.
She began working with blind children in 1986s as a UN school director in a Thai refugee camp, and when she returned to Cambodia in 1993, she became the first Braille teacher in the history of the country.
The finalists' stories, films and photographs can be see at http://www.globalteacherprize.org/global-teacher-prize-top-10-finalists
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