Help Give Cambodian Young Adults Independence

HOPE supports several local organisations to run Young Adult Programmes, sharing knowledge, materials and resoruces across them all.

One local organisation is Salariin Kampuchea’s who run a Life Skills programme aimed at providing students with a variety of life skills. One key objective of the programme is to introduce the students to various ideas for making a living in the future. Visiting a sample of local businesses is crucial and a valuable experience to show the students the jobs that are available and give them access to opportunities.

Here’s a report from Mr Morn Tep, Life Skills Teacher at Salariin Kampuchea, on a recent visit to a local five-star hotel in Siem Reap.

On February 19th 2016, fourth-generation life skills students and I have been to one of the local five star hotels, Pacific, in Siem Reap city.

We were warmly welcomed by the management teams at Pacific hotel with a large group of thirty two students. It was a great honour to inform them about life skills program on behalf of Salariin Kampuchea organization. We were also highly-respected and introduced to various departments at the Pacific hotel. Moreover, students were really interested in presenting from hotel industry. They seem to realize more things related to hotel industry and discovered experiences how to be staff in the hotel.

All students were warmly welcomed by Pacific hotel, Human Resource.  Students were given a tour of the hotel and have been told about front desk, restaurant, housekeeping departments and other services in the hotel. They ask many questions related to hotel industry ; how to be a good staff in the hotel, how to apply to work for the hotel, how to train to be a staff in the hotel.

Our group took photos with the smart uniforms at the end of the visit. They are all really well-organized and ready to go on their second visit to a huge hotel with notebooks and other materials for making notes of their visit.