Help Train and Find Jobs for 30 Laotian Youth
Summary
Giving youth job training will keep them off the streets. Makphet restaurant gives youth hospitality traning so they can find jobs and earn income. Makphet is a socially responsible enterprise.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Lack of skills leading to gainful employment among urban marginalized youth in Laos represents a high risk for young people to end up on the streets or adopt harmful behaviors, pertpetuating the cycle of poverty. By providing professional hospitality training and subsequent job placement servcies, the chances for youth to improve their lives increases considerably without creating dependency on program support in the long term. They will then be able to find jobs and earn income.
Activities
By providing quality vocational training in a real work environment, and by offering subsequent job placement services, vulnerable young people have the opportunity to obtain decent employment and attain long term financial security.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $235
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $50,615
Total Funding Goal: $50,850
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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
30 students are provided with high quality training making them more attractive to prospective employers 15 students are placed into decent employment, ensuring their long term financial security.
Project Message
Young people come to Makphet the Restaurant and they flourish – they learn, they are inspired, they set future goals and become role models to other young people. This is why I love my work.
- Gustav Auer, FI Hospitality Business Coordinator/Chef
Who is Running This Project
Contact
James Sutherland
Grants Manager
9A Street 21
Phnom Penh, 000000
Cambodia
85523986601
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Friends-International
9A Street 178
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
0000
Cambodia
(+ 855) 23 986 601
http://www.friends-international.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in
Laos
and can also be found under
Education.
For more information about Laos, read the Human Development Report on Laos or the Wikipedia entry for Laos.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on May 21, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 30, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
Project update: Lao PDR
By Toni Palombi - Grant Manager, December 30, 2008 05:20 PM
Our donors help these young people by providing funds for education materials, hospitality tuition and meals- essential support to ensure students succeed with their studies.
All 7 graduates have been assisted to find employment in Laos. They are now able to contribute to improving the lives of their families and supporting their younger siblings to go to school, which will significantly reduce the risks of younger siblings ending up on the streets.
Bee, a recent graduate of Makphet is looking forward to his future:
“I love cooking. The studying is hard and the teachers make us work hard, but I really enjoy learning how to prepare meals, not only Laotian food, but also international dishes. I can’t wait until I graduate and start my first job as a chef. I really want to help support my family, especially my younger sister who is still in school. She wants to become a chef like me now!”
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