Beauty Skills Training
 The project has just started to be conducted on August 23, 2004. It is the first project implemented with financial assistance of Women’s International Group. KAD has established its sub-center for opening the beauty skills training course on hair-waving, cutting, dressing, cosmetology and manicuring in Kbal Chroy village, Prek Eng commune, Kien Svay district. 24 students have been allowed into each batch which lasts 8 months. The class opened 8 hours per day starting from 7:30 am -11:30 am-1:30-5:30 pm. The trainees were allowed to take holidays on both national and international festivals. The project cooperated with and recognized by district office of education, youth and sport and local authorities. The project focused only on girls and women suffering from social injustice, domestic violence,poverty, trafficking, raping and those who affected by AIDS. The trainees came from twelve commune of Kien Svay district including Koki Thom, Samraong Thom, Banteay Dek, Dei Eth, Koki, Phom Thom, Kbal Koh, Prek Eng, Veal Sbov, Prek Thmey, Chheu Teal and Kampong Svay.
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To create both employment and self-employment that generates income and improve the vulnerable people’s lives. |
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To prevent nomadic work, prostitution, HIV/AIDS and human trafficking. |
| Objectives |
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To open the beauty skills training course. |
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To collect the rural, vulnerable women into the beauty training class. |
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To train the rural, vulnerable women in the beauty skills of hair-waving, hair-cutting, hair-dressing, cosmetology and manicuring. |
The class was equipped with supplies, instrument and equipment in advance of the beauty training started. The trainees were allowed to use these materials free of charge. In order to find real competence, trainees were monthly tested and gifts were given to those who did best in the class. Upon completion of the class, the last test was given to trainees to find their real ability, closure ceremony was held and certificates recognized by the provincial department of education, youth and sport handed out to trainees who passed the test. Before leaving the class, trainees were instructed on how to do a small-scale business.
The purpose of establishing this project was in order
to create income-generating self-employment and
employment that help improve the living standard
of poor women and to enable women and girls to
avoid the tricking into prostitution, raping and
trafficking and to get out of poverty, social injustice
and domestic violence and to sanitize themselves.
When leaving the class, some of trainees opened
beauty parlors themselves at markets and their
villages and some others worked for the beauty saloons in the city.
From 2006 up to now, the project has received the grants from Misereor in Germany to open the beauty training class in Chroy Ampil village, Kbal Koh commune, Kien Svay district, Kandal province. So far, 3 courses have been completed and 104 trainees have graduated.
In the whole district, there are about 3,460 widows and there are about 2,340 female heads of households living under the poverty line making income of less than $1 per day/capita. They have to feed their families of at least 7 members. They earn their living by selling just a basket of vegetable at the market, doing construction work and being hired as a house helper. As for domestic violence, it happens to about 131 families per year. The domestic violence is always caused by husbands toward wives and children. The domestic violence badly affect the children like they always feel scared, go to school irregularly or abandon their schooling, escape from the family and participate in a gang. It occurs because of drunkenness, gambling and jealousy, illiteracy or low education, financial deprivation. 3,660 women are completely illiterate and 14,011 women have little education. Several hundreds of women and girls are facing infection of HIV/AIDS.
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