Sewing Skills Training Course
The sewing training course started in 1999 under financial support from private donors focusing on the poorest women in Kien Svay district. In 2001-2002, the project received funds from Direct Aid Program of Australian Embassy. In 2003-2004, the project secured assistance from Women's International Group and Latter-Day Saint Charities. Four staff were charged to be responsible for the project, two of whom were full-time while the two others were volunteer working full-time as well. 30 trainees were admitted to the class in each batch that lasted six months. But sometimes, 50-90 trainees were chosen to be trained.Up to 2004, KAD has already completed the 7 courses which the total of 468 trainees were trained in clothes making skills.

-	To create both employment and self-employment that generates income and improve the vulnerable people’s lives.
-	To prevent nomadic work, prostitution, HIV/AIDS and human trafficking.

-	To open the sewing skills training course.
-	To collect the rural, vulnerable women into the sewing training class.
-	To train the rural, vulnerable women in the sewing skills of clothes making.

The sewing products were donated to extremely poor people, children and orphans. Trainees who were allowed to attend the classes came from twelve communes of Kien Svay district and from other areas of Cambodia. Some of trainees suffered domestic violence, raping, trafficking, social injustice and affected by HIV/AIDS.

The trainees were supplied with sewing materials and equipment like, fabric, sewing machines, needle, thread, sticky cloth, button etc. free of charge. In order to improve their skills, 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. The closure ceremony was held and certificates recognized by the provincial department of education, youth and sport were handed out to trainees who passed the test. Before leaving the class, trainees were instructed on how to do a mall-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 vulnerable women and to enable them to avoid the tricking into prostitution, raping and trafficking and to get out of poverty, social injustice and domestic violence. Evidently, of 468 girls and women trained, 212 started up their own business in the markets and villages where they are living and the rest were employed by the garment factories and clothing shops in markets and in the cities. As a result, they get around $200 per month, nothing they got compared to before the training. The clothes making business is the very suitable work for women. It it is not a heavy, hard work for them. With self-employment, they can manage the work and income by themselves and their living situation is very good. Nobody bosses and suppresses them, forces them to work hard or exploit their labor. They work with freedom. This work helps enhance the value of women, eradicate anti-women discrimination, domestic violence, sexual trade, human trafficking, HIV/AIDS and involve women in social development.