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MORE THAN A PROJECT A Partnership Built Over Time

开豆 KAIDO did not begin as a stand-alone business idea. It was born from years of meaningful cooperation between Nanjing Hankai Academy and New Hope Cambodia in Siem Reap.

New Hope Cambodia publicly describes its work as providing free education, free health care, and community support for children and youth from disadvantaged families in Siem Reap, with education positioned as a way to help break the cycle of poverty.

Over time, Hankai’s involvement in Cambodia grew from service and educational exchange into something deeper: a long-term commitment to community partnership, student leadership, and sustainable impact.

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About New Hope Cambodia

New Hope Cambodia is a Siem Reap-based organization serving children and youth from vulnerable backgrounds. Its public program structure include the followings:

● Education support● Health support● Community and crisis care support● Opportunities for volunteers to contribute to the school, health centre, and community-based projects
This matters because it shows that KAIDO is rooted in a partner organization whose work is already community-based, educational, and long-term. It is not a symbolic collaboration. It is connected to a real local ecosystem of care and opportunity.

Hankai’s Journey in Cambodia

How Hankai Has Worked in Cambodia Over the Years

Through its long-term cooperation with New Hope Cambodia in Siem Reap, Nanjing Hankai Academy has developed a model of engagement that combines service, education, and community support. New Hope Cambodia publicly describes its work as providing free education, free health care, and community and crisis care support for disadvantaged children and youth, making it a meaningful partner for sustained school-community collaboration.
Over the years, Hankai’s work in Cambodia has included donating books and school supplies, supporting families with grocery goods, organizing arts, music, and crafts activities with students, and delivering student-led lessons in areas such as PHSE, Economics, Business Start-Up, and Chinese. The partnership also expanded into Chinese-learning opportunities connected to tourism, tour guiding, and future employment, showing that the relationship has grown beyond short-term service into practical educational development.
This partnership has also already led to internationally recognized student achievement. In 2025, three students from Nanjing Hankai Academy won Cambridge’s Best in Region award in East Asia for their investigation into whether hydroponics or aeroponics worked better in places where soil is not fertile. Cambridge reported that, after completing the project, the students donated two of their prototypes and introduced the system to a family and a local school in Cambodia, directly linking student innovation to real community application.
This matters because it shows that Hankai’s Cambodia work has never been limited to donation alone. It has already created opportunities for research, innovation, applied learning, and real-world impact - the very foundation from which KAIDO was later born.

Read the full article on "Cambridge’s Best in Region award in East Asia" Here.

Experience

That is especially important in the broader Siem Reap context. New Hope Cambodia works with students and families facing financial hardship, while the nearby Run Ta Ek relocation area has drawn international concern because many relocated families have faced serious infrastructure, housing, and livelihood challenges. AP reported in April 2024 that about 5,000 families had already been relocated there, with more expected; the UN human rights office said in December 2024 that conditions in Run Ta Ek and similar sites remained dire, with inadequate services and infrastructure.
Against that backdrop, long-term school-community cooperation becomes more meaningful. Educational engagement, language access, student support, and family assistance are not isolated acts. They are part of a wider effort to create stability, dignity, and opportunity.

How KAIDO Was Born

As Hankai’s work in Cambodia deepened over time, one idea became increasingly clear: meaningful partnership should not depend only on occasional visits, one-time donations, or short-term activities. It should grow into something more sustainable, more educational, and more community-driven. That thinking emerged naturally from a relationship already built through student exchange, practical support, and long-term cooperation with New Hope Cambodia, whose public mission centers on providing free education, health care, and community support for disadvantaged children and youth in Siem Reap.

Earlier Cambodia-linked initiatives also showed what was possible when student learning was connected to real community needs. In 2025, three Nanjing Hankai Academy students won Cambridge’s Best in Region award in East Asia for their investigation into whether hydroponics or aeroponics worked better in areas with poor soil fertility. Cambridge reports that, after the project, the students donated two prototypes and introduced the system to a family and a local school in Cambodia. That recognition helped demonstrate that Hankai’s Cambodia work could generate not only service, but also innovation, research, and applied learning with international credibility.

From that background, 开豆 KAIDO – Cambodia Coffee Bean Project was born. The idea was simple but powerful: create a model in which students do not only help a community, but also learn how to build something sustainable with it. By connecting schools to coffee beans linked to New Hope partner families and then allowing student teams to design their own business models, KAIDO turns partnership into enterprise, and enterprise into impact.

In that sense, KAIDO is not a separate project added onto the Cambodia partnership. It is the next stage of it. It takes the values already present in Hankai’s Cambodia journey - service, learning, responsibility, and community support - and reshapes them into a student-run social enterprise with long-term purpose.

Participating schools receive beans through the KAIDO framework. From there, each school’s student team decides how to build its own model. This might include:

● selling packaged coffee bags,● running coffee carts,● launching online stores,● creating seasonal school campaigns,● or designing other student-led retail ideas.
The structure is shared, but the execution belongs to each school. That flexibility is one of KAIDO’s greatest strengths.

Why Coffee

Coffee gives students something tangible, real, and engaging to build around.

It is not an abstract “awareness project.” It is a real product with real customers, real pricing decisions, real branding choices, and real operational responsibilities.

That makes coffee especially powerful as an educational vehicle. It allows students to experience how enterprise works in practice while staying connected to a broader purpose: sustaining support for a partner community and helping students at New Hope Cambodia access the essentials they need.

Coffee is sourced through the KAIDO network

The project begins with beans connected to New Hope partner families and the wider Cambodia partnership context.

Schools join the platform

Participating schools receive the foundation of the project and form a student team.

Students design their own business model

Each school chooses its own route: coffee bags, carts, online sales, pop-up campaigns, or other creative enterprise models.

Students run the business

Students manage planning, finance, branding, marketing, operations, teamwork, and reporting.

Proceeds return to purpose

Revenue helps support New Hope Cambodia students through books, uniforms, and other educational needs.

Why This Is Exceptional for Schools

KAIDO gives schools an unusual opportunity to combine student leadership, enterprise education, global citizenship, service learning, real-world responsibility, and measurable social impact in one coherent project. That fits closely with how major education bodies frame high-value learning: OECD describes global competence as applying knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to global issues and intercultural situations, while UNESCO emphasizes education that equips learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes to address shared challenges. UCAS also advises students to show relevant examples and experiences that demonstrate what universities want to see.

Student-led enterprise

Students do not just discuss business in theory. They can cost a coffee product, decide on packaging, calculate pricing, plan promotions, and review whether their model is financially sustainable after real sales.

Global citizenship in action

Instead of treating global citizenship as a slogan, students engage with a genuine cross-border partnership linked to education, livelihoods, and community support in Cambodia, which is much closer to OECD’s idea of applying learning to real global and intercultural contexts.

Flexible school ownership

A school does not need to copy one fixed template. One campus might run a student coffee cart, another might sell branded gift packs, and another might build an online campaign, allowing the project to match each school’s strengths, timetable, and student interests.

Meaningful service

This goes beyond a one-day charity event. Students can see how proceeds connect back to books, uniforms, and student support, which helps them understand service as an ongoing relationship rather than a one-off donation.

Portfolio and admissions value

Students can reflect on concrete experiences such as managing a budget, solving a sales problem, presenting to stakeholders, or leading a team task. That kind of evidence is often much stronger for later applications than vague claims about being “passionate” or “active.” UCAS’s current guidance specifically encourages students to include examples and experiences that show what they have done and learned.

Scalable collaboration

Because the model is shared but adaptable, multiple schools can join without losing their identity. That means the project can grow into a wider network of student teams learning in different ways while contributing to one common social purpose.

From Global Citizenship to Future Pathways

Global Citizenship with Real Educational Value

KAIDO helps students grow not only as learners, but as young people who understand how knowledge can be applied in the real world.

For schools, that means a stronger culture of initiative and responsibility. For students, it means meaningful evidence of reflection, leadership, and action.

That can naturally strengthen later portfolios, interviews, and university applications — especially when students can explain what they actually learned about enterprise, community partnership, sustainability, and intercultural collaboration through the project.

The strongest value of KAIDO is not that students can say they “joined a project.”
It is that they can say they built something, managed something, and learned from something real.

Why KAIDO Is the Next Chapter

From Partnership to Sustainability

Hankai’s history in Cambodia shows a clear progression:

● first came service,● then came educational exchange,● then came deeper community cooperation,● and now comes sustainability.
KAIDO is the next chapter of that journey.
It turns an already meaningful partnership into a model that can continue to grow, support more students, and involve more schools that share the same values of community, responsibility, and educational purpose.

KAIDO is designed to expand.
The aim is not for every school to copy Hankai exactly. The aim is to invite schools with similar values to join a shared framework and allow their students to make it their own.
● One school may choose retail packs.● Another may run a coffee cart.● Another may build an online campaign.● Another may integrate KAIDO into business, economics, service learning, or student leadership programs.
What unites them is a common belief:students grow most when they are trusted with meaningful work that creates real value for others.
开豆 KAIDO – Cambodia Coffee Bean Project is more than a coffee initiative.

It is the result of years of work, trust, and shared purpose between Nanjing Hankai Academy and New Hope Cambodia. It is a model that allows students to learn through enterprise, schools to lead through values, and communities to benefit through sustained partnership.

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Testimonial

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What KAIDO Is

Why Coffee

How the Model Works

Why This Is Exceptional for Schools

From Global Citizenship to Future Pathways

Why KAIDO Is the Next Chapter

Invitation to Other Schools

"From Cambodia to classrooms, from learning to leadership, from partnership to possibility - this is KAIDO."

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