Newsletters
December 2011
INTERVIEW
NEWS FROM SALA BAI
- Free chek-up
- Opening of the Training Restaurant and Hotel
- Running at Sala Baï
- Trainees in 18 of our Hotel partners
- The key to employment
- To be coming: the 11th promotion recruitment
GIVE US A HAND
THEY SUPPORT SALA BAI
- Success of the four-hand dinner with Régis Marcon and Andrée Rosier
- Sala Baï at the ANEPHOT Annual Congress
- Production of a Documentary
- 435 days riding for Sala Baï
- Régis Marcon enters the Board of Agir pour le Cambodge
YOUR DONATION IN ACTION
"Technical knowledge and attitude cannot be separated: it's the key to success".
Huy Serey is the Human Resources Manager at the Somadevy Angkor Hotel. As part of the general culture lectures held on Friday afternoons, Huy Serey talked on Ethics and Behavior on the workplace to adapt in the professional world. His speech was expected by the students for different reasons. As a Human Resources Manager, he knows well the expectations of their future employers and the training students were anxious to listen to his advice. Furthermore, having reached a managing position from bottom up, he represents the image of hope for these young people. Some were on their way to their first internship on the industry, the first step in their professional life.
"I am very happy to talk to Sala Baï students because, like them, I come from a modest background. I have been lucky enough to have good trainers for my first professional experience and since I was really shy, it was quite a trial. If my speech today had only one purpose, it would be that the Sala Baï students believe in themselves and in their aptitude to build their future. For that, they have to know their qualities and know how to adapt their behavior.
I am all the happier to come at the beginning of their training. The culture shock is so huge between the rural area they come from and the hotel world where they will start their training in the coming days that I would like to give them the keys to help them cope with this new environment, encourage them to improve, learn how to communicate and be confident. I am really surprised by their aptitude to adapt.
I use games to illustrate my speech. The maze game teaches them that to succeed they have to choose a path and have a goal. Once they have it, they will always find a way to reach it. The Pilot game brings in light the necessity to trust your colleagues and your boss. Trust is determining to go on. We cannot separate technical knowledge and behavior. This is the key to success."
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Window on the outer world: Friday conferences In Sala Baï, 11% of the training is devoted to general culture with conferences. The Management and the social workers of Sala Baï have scheduled them on Fridays, often with lectures from people outside. |
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News from Sala Baï
Free check-up
On November 19th, almost 80 persons, students, Sala Baï staff and relatives, benefited from a free medical check-up. Thirty doctors, general practitioners, pediatricians and dermatologists that came as a group with Bioderma Labs, wished to support Sala Baï program, not only by giving hygiene products and medicines but also by offering their skills to the School. To ease the check-up process, medics were assisted by interpreters.
Among the students and some of the staff they noted rather important deficiencies in vitamins, iron and mineral salts, as consequences of malnutrition they suffered in their childhood.
More than training skills, it is a holistic support of students, health care included, that is offered at Sala Baï. During their training, health care expenses are entirely covered by the School.
News from Sala Baï
Opening of the Training Hotel and Restaurant
Located at a five-minute walk from down town Siem Reap and a 20-minute tuk-tuk drive from Ankgor site, both Training Hotel and Restaurant are essential tools for the training of the students. They can practice in real conditions.
Since October 17th, the restaurant has been opened for breakfast and lunch from Monday to Friday. With Asian and Western Cooking, menus change every other week to respect the students' curriculum and practice. The Training Hotel proposes three standard rooms and a suite. They all have access to Wi-Fi now.
By staying at Sala Baï or by having lunch there, you not only add another dimension to traveling in Cambodia, but you actively allow young Cambodians to be trained and contribute to their professional experience. Last year's benefits generated from the Hotel and the Restaurant have financed the training of ten students. To know more
News from Sala Baï
Running at Sala Baï
On October 23rd, a race was organized for the Sala Baï students. 82 out of 100 of them and 12 out of 24 staff took part in it, as a way to thank all the sportsmen and sportswomen that have raised funds for them this year.
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News from Sala Baï
Trainees in 18 of our Hotel partners
Out of the 11 month training, four are devoted to internships. Half of the promotion started on October 31st in one of the 18 Hotel partners of the School.
Amansara, Angkor Century Resort & Spa, Angkor Miracle Resort & Spa, Angkor Palace Resort & Spa, Bopha Angkor, FCC Angkor, Heritage Suites Hotel, Hôtel de la Paix, Karavansara Hotel, Résidence d'Angkor, Meridian Angkor, Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor, Ree Hotel, Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf & Spa Resort, Sokha Angkor Resort, Somadevy Hotel, Tara Angkor Hotel, and Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa have taken in Sala Baï students in Cook training, Restaurant, Front Office and Housekeeping training. Most of them are greeted by Sala Baï graduates who work in these hotels and will guide them in their first professional experience. Here at Sofitel Angkor Resort.
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News from Sala Baï
The key to employment
Learning English is a must for the students that want to work in the hospitality and tourism industry. It is the key to employment. The challenge is all the bigger than Sala Baï takes in young people that have been out of school sometimes for more than ten years. The School management has wished to support the weakest.
Though representing already 14% of the training, a new English teacher has just been hired as a part-time job at Sala Baï. He teaches extra one-hour classes on weekdays and four-hour classes on Saturdays and Sundays. 49 students out of 100 have benefited from this support for the two first months before half of them went off to the industry for their first internship.
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News from Sala Baï
To be coming: the 11th promotion recruitement
The information campaign on the beginning of the recruitment process of the 11th promotion will start with posters, leaflets and radio announcements on next January 9th. It will be the first step of four of a selection process that will end on June 29th with the posting of the names of the 100 selected students of the 11th promotion.
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Give us a hand
Books on Health and Hygiene
Books on Health and Hygiene
As part of the awareness to Health and Hygiene of Sala Baï students, we would need the support of 100 books on the body and health as an illustration.
Published by the French organization to fight illiteracy, SIPAR, these books will enable the trainers to explain the students the functions of their body and address them questions on health and hygiene. Real pedagogical tools, these books are thoroughly illustrated and are written in Khmer language with a simple vocabulary. Each book costs $1,50.
If you want to support us, it's possible to :
- make an online donation on Sala Baï website : www.salabai.com
- send your contribution to Agir Pour le Cambodge: 120, avenue de Suffren 75015 Paris.
Your donation in action
Renewal of the bicycles
In the September Newsletter, we had asked your help for the renewal of 30 bicycles needed by the students to go to school and to their internship place. Thanks to your generosity, we have been able to buy them all. Thank you!
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They support Sala Baï
Success of the four-hand dinner with Régis Marcon and Andrée Rosier
"To be a cook, I practice this skill with passion and it is with the same passion that I transmit it. The training I taught at Sala Baï is part of my best memories of my professional life. I hope you will have the chance like I did, to discover this unique Hotel School," said Régis Marcon at the end of the fund-raising dinner he cooked for the Sala Baï students, together with Andrée Rosier, first "meilleure ouvrier de France" and patron of the Sala Baï 10th promotion.
The dinner was held at Ferrandi School with the help of its students. Indeed a nice partnership between a French Hotel School in Paris and famous chefs for the benefit of a Hotel School in Cambodia meant for the underprivileged. This fund-raiser will finance the training of seven students.
They support Sala Baï
Sala Baï at the ANEPHOT Annual Congress
During the Annual Congress of the Private Hotel and Tourism Schools Association held from November 23rd to 25th at Sainte Jehanne of France High School in Lyon, an evening event was dedicated to Sala Baï. The raffle organized then will cover six months training of one student.
Anne-Charlotte Carré in Paris: contact(at)agirpourlecambodge.org
Emmanuelle Dethomas in Siem Reap, Cambodia: info(at)salabai.com
They support Sala Baï
Production of a Documentary
The itinerary of Khatna, a young woman coming from a poor family in Mechrey, a floating village on the Tonlé Sap, will be the thread of a documentary on Sala Baï. It is financed by Touch Sala Baï and is produced by a team of journalists coming from Singapore. It will be released by mid-January.
They support Sala Baï
435 days riding for Sala Baï
From Notre-Dame in Paris to Notre-Dame in Paris, Anne and Hadrien, alias the "véloptimistes" have just closed the loop around the world riding their bikes in 435 days. Passing through Cambodia, they discovered Sala Baï and decided to support the program. Sala Baï students thank them for this nice and generous commitment.
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They support Sala Baï
Régis Marcon enters the board of Agir pour le Cambodge
Régis Marcon, a three-star chef and also in charge of the Training Mission, joined the Board on November 19th. To see the new Board of Agir pour le Cambodge
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