Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA organised an Opening Ceremony on
Teacher Training in Hairdressing & Beauty and Small Business Management on
15 October 2014 at Eden Park Restaurant.
Presided by H.E.Nhem Morokat, Under Secretary of
State, Ministry of Women's Affairs, the
event hosted 36 participants from 6 Women Development Centres and included
8 teacher trainers.
The objective was to seek assistance in providing certification
and recognition for technical trainers in Hairdressing and Beauty from the Ministry
of Labour.
The Training of Trainer
project is designed to deliver high quality training courses for rural poor
women as a "Second Education Opportunity", leading to village
cooperative groups.
At the Opening ceremony, Lim Soksan, Program Co-ordinator reported
that APHEDA has been in Cambodia
since 1984 focusing on Adult Education, promoting Sustainable Livelihood for
rural women and farmers. We are currently working in partnership with 6 WDCs,
providing vocational training education in Hairdressing & Beauty, Garment
& Handicraft making, Food Processing and Weaving. We have trained in total 387 women over the
past 4 years and have trained in other vocations of fish farming &
vegetable growing to more than 1,600 farmers of which at least 50% are women.
Social Education included in the training are: nutrition, HIV/AIDS, hygiene and
domestic violence protection.
The Training of Trainer
project is designed to deliver high quality training courses for rural poor
women as a "Second Education Opportunity", leading to village
cooperative groups.
The Hairdressing and Beauty curriculum has been provided,
since 2010, by the Canberra Institute of Technologys' Gail Vest. Her colleague, Emma Luscombe,
2014 Young Business Women of the Year and ACT Finalist for the prestigious Telstra
Australian Business Awards, and a certified Educator with the AVEDA Institute,
was invited for her Small Business/Co-operative Management expertise.
H.E Nhem Morokat, who supports APHEDA's program 200%, said the
WDCs of the 4 provinces (Kampot, Kampong Chhang,Kampong Cham and Kampong Speu), were initially established in
1995 by the Japanese Government. Now it has increased to 14 centres, and she has
invited APHEDA to extend its program to those WDCs.
She concurred, that providing economic empowerment for women was
to enhance an income generation opportunity, through decent jobs. The
development of micro, small and medium enterprises is important for household
and social economics. The challenges of WDCs are lacking skills such as 1)
methods monitoring and evaluation on ex-trainees, 2) Database on ex-trainees,
who are using skills after their graduation, 3) Global quality and measurable
monitoring system …etc.
These challenges need
all of us to find a solution; therefore, H.E Morokat urged centre directors to
pay attention and improve any negative work practice, for the WDCs improvement. On the
other hand, the partnership between WDCs and APHEDA as the service provider in
technology and training, is very strong.....
APHEDA's SLOGAN "Training with no job is like the
frog that lives with no water"
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