Actor and Girls’ Rights Advocate to Join HFCA’s Efforts in Empowering Underprivileged Youth Through Sports
Phnom Penh, HFCA are honoured to announce that Actor Ms Sarita Reth will be visiting HFCA’s football program in Oroong Village, Siem Reap province on Wednesday the 8th of May. Sarita will stay overnight in the village and join in with training the next morning. Oroong village is 122km north east of Siem Reap city and HFCA with our close NGO partner Build your Future Today have supported underprivileged girls in the village to join our football program alongside the boys.
Sarita Reth, a renowned actor and advocate for sports and girls’ rights, draws inspiration from her school football days, embodying values of leadership and resilience. As a proud Khmer woman, she holds a Blue Krama in Bokator, championing Cambodian martial arts. With over ten film appearances, her role in Love9 by BBC Media Action gained widespread acclaim in Cambodia. In 2022, she won the 11th Cambodia International Film Festival Actress of the Year award. Crowned Miss Universe Cambodia in 2020, she represented her country at the 69th Miss Universe edition in Hollywood, Florida.
Joining Sarita will be two HFCA players Penh Sreynou & Voeun Lisa from our Women’s football team in Phnom Penh which we run in partnership with Cambodian Childrens Fund.
Created in 2005, HFCA (Happy Football Cambodia Australia) is an NGO aimed at empowering underprivileged youth in Cambodia through the medium of football. HFCA ensures that underprivileged youth get access to high quality training, team building and mobility opportunities. This supports wellbeing, mental health, self-esteem and crucially provides pathways into further opportunities by developing soft skills for success in education and employment.
“I think that going to Oroong is so exciting for me and a great adventure! I want to meet all the girls over there and encourage them to be involved more in sports! Most importantly to interact and play sport with them”
Actor Sarita Reth
“HFCA is delighted that such a famous actor will visit our players in Oroong Village. We hope Sarita supporting the village girls football program will inspire more Cambodian girls to play football”
Paraic Grogan, Founder HFCA
