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Creating Hotel Skills
Activity: Sala Bai Hotel School.
Location: Siem Reap.
Tip: The rooms are great value and staying here gives the staff valuable hospitality experience.

Help the 'students of rice' on their path to a new career in the hospitality industry with enjoying a meal or staying at Sala Bai.
The experience:  Sala Bai , students of rice, is a hospitality school in Siem Reap that offers hotel
and catering training to young disadvantaged Cambodians people. Both the hotel and restaurant are open to real customers to allow the students to get hands-on experience of the hospitality industry and prepare them for work in a real environment. The Sala Bai restaurant is available from November to July and offers both breakfast and lunch on weekdays. The menu is a blend of Cambodian and International cuisine and includes set meals as well as a la carte dishes. A full range of drinks is also available, including fresh juices and shakes and a well-stocked bar. If you like the food, then find the cook book that is available at the restaurant or online website of Sala Bai. The hotel offers three standard rooms and one suite, all of room are equipped with air-conditioning and hot water in the bathroom.

Staying there offers valuable experience for both the front desk team and the housekeeping staff.
How it helps: Established by the French NGO Agir Pour Le Cambodge in October 2002, Sala Bai offers professional training in the hospitality industry. Tourism is the lifeblood of Siem Reap thanks to the incredible temples of Angkor. Sala Bai help students the hand into the industry.

There is a practical restaurant and hotel within the school that allows staff to implement what they
learn in theory classes. Sala Bai offers priority to girls, who are the most excluded from the traditional school and employment system.
Female students currently make up about 70% of the intake. Students are between seventeen and twenty-three years old. The main objective is to offer students with high quality training in 4 areas: restaurant and bar service, housekeeping, kitchen and front office. Each year, the school enrolls 100 students, selected through an examination which includes tests, interviews and motivational exercises. 4 months of internship in high-class hotels offer the students first-hand professional experience which is a real asset in the search for a job. Students are also offered with accommodation, 3 meals a
day and a bicycle.
The Former Sala Bai Student who graduated from the new employment can support themselves and their family and assist in the development of their country. Sala Bai helps students with preparing a CV and completing application forms. More than 95% of Sala Bai students find work within 3 months of graduation, making the programme one of the most successful in Cambodia.

Location and booking information of Sala Bai
155 Phoum Tapoul, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Tel: (+855) [0] 63 963 329
E-mail: salabai.admin@online.com.kh
Web: www.salabai.com


A Cambodian Craft Centre

Activity: NCDP Handicrafts.
Location: Phnom Penh.
Tip: NCDP Handicrafts offers a tailor-made home décor service where customers can choose their own designs and colours.

Visit a boutique in the capital that offers a showcase for the best of Cambodian handicrafts produced by the disabled community.
The experience:  NDCP Handicrafts is a popular Phnom Penh retail outlet located in the National Centre for Disabled Persons. Operating for more than 10 years, NCDP Handicrafts creates high quality Cambodian products on sale in the boutique, and also orders for export.
Cambodian silk is a speciality and NCDP produces a fine range of handmade handbags, wallets, purses, and accessories, as well as larger items like cushion covers and throws. Scarves remain one of the most popular items and the store includes a superb range of colours and designs.
Other popular products including handmade cards, including wood carvings, seasonal Christmas cards ,
stone carvings and everyday items like souvenir t-shirts. All NCDP products are produced by members of Cambodia's disabled community.

How it helps:  NCDP Handicrafts offers income and employment for members of Cambodia's disabled community, helping them to lead a more normal life. NCDP projects want to raise the living standards of Cambodia's disabled community and the organisation offers support and training to an extensive network throughout the country.
NCDP Handicrafts works closely with artisans in the areas of design, manufacturing and quality control. The artisans benefit from a national outlet that let them to display their products. This is a shop window for the disabled community in Cambodia that let people from different provinces to display their crafts to a national and international audience.
NCDP helps about 150 of Cambodians people with disabilities each year to make a living through the sale of handicrafts. A further 450 people with disabilities are subcontracted as part of the production process and as many as 750 family members
benefit. All in all, as many as 1800 people benefit directly from NCDP projects each year.

NCDP Handicrafts is continually looking to improve the quality of its products and plans to expand its product line, supplying to more whole-sale businesses in other countries in overseas. It is envisioned that in time, this will make hundreds of new jobs for Cambodia's disabled community. Those supported through the work of NCDP include
the victims of landmines.

Location and contact information of NCDP
3 Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel: (+855) [0] 23 213 734
E-mail: ncdp@online.com.kh
Web: www.ncdpcam.org
Open daily from 0800 to 1800

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