+ Vocational Skills
The Vocational Skills Project and Vocational Skills Training Center is located in the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia. The project supports a free training programme for the vulnerable groups including poor students, poor and street children, orphans, the disabled, vagabonds and homeless people. The project focuses on the poor households headed by women / widows or parents who have passed away or died of AIDS. The Vocational Skills Project assists them in finding a way out of the trap of poverty through providing them with vocational skills.
 
Free Vocational Skills Programme - Provides people that are unable to afford the government school fees with the opportunity of a free education. All the courses are taught by the voluntary specialist teachers from many countries around the world. Trainees from ages 18 to 25 are taught a variety of specialist subjects including Dancing Training, Sewing Training, Traditional Art Training, Carpenter and Joiner Training, Stone Sculpture Training, Wood Sculpture Training, Painting Training and Weaving Training.  The Vocational Training Center has 450 students who attend the vocational training center for 6 hours each throughout the day.  The students attend from 8:00 am to 11:00 am for the morning classes and 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm for the afternoon and evening classes.  Classes are held from Monday to Friday. Due to the local Department of Labour and Social Work, most of the jobs available in Siem Reap require vocational skills. The trainees are very enthusiastic about training and very much appreciate practicing the skills they learn from the specialist volunteers. Volunteers - Assist the local vulnerable people and families as well as training vocational skills.

1. Siem Reap and Odor Meanchey Rehabilitation Vocational Training Centre (SR-and-OM-RVTC)
 
SR-RVTC plans to locate in Group 14, Tropangses Village, Kokchork Commune, Siem Reap District, and Siem Reap province and OM-RVTC plans to locate in at Group 09, Chhuk Village, Samrong Commune, Samrong District, and Odor Meanchey province. RVTC is aimed at providing and supporting living standards, formal and informal educations and in-centered services to vulnerable people, poor students/people, street/poor children, orphans and the disabled. The second goal of RVTC is aimed at increasing vocational skills to poor households headed by widows/women, homeless and people handicapped by mines, to help them to become, self-sufficient and economically independent through sustainable life-skills and vocational skills development.
 
RVTC programme policies are worked and focused on vulnerable people, poor students/people, street/poor children, orphans and the disabled, homeless people, poor households headed by widows/women and handicapped people. The vulnerable children who are aged of 6 up to 17 will be admitted to live in the RVTC and LSDI for provision of formal education and vocational skills.
 
For the homeless people, households headed by widows/women and handicapped people will be provided with vocational training skills based on short-term curriculums. Most of these people will not be admitted to stay at the RVTC, except for the vulnerable people who are from remote areas and can be admitted to stay in the center for a temporary period of their study programmes.
 
Based on the information gathered from conducted surveys in the 9-targeted districts (5 districts in Siem Reap and 5 districts in Odor Meanchey province) there are a total of 20,249 illiterate street/poor children, aged 6 to 17. The problems and issues of these target children will be identified for RVTC's programme policies and formal education at public schools in Siem Reap and Odor Meanchey provinces through MOU with Ministry of Education (MOE).
 
………….vulnerable children from orphans, street children and garbage picking children will be referred to study at public school. They will be provided with training sessions of vocational skills.
 
2. Means of Participation
 
All activities of the LSDI, RVTC and IFS are initiated in response to the felt needs of the vulnerable groups, poor/street children, orphans, vagabonds and the disabled. Initially, LSDI, RVTC and IFS staff will help the target groups to organize themselves in planning, creating, and managing business transactions to ensure their families’ economic situations. The RVTC will assist the vulnerable groups, poor/street children, orphans, vagabonds and the disabled in raising incomes by generating activities through RVTC approaches. The LSDI, RVTC and IFS will assist with technical and financial aid. In the later stages, when the beneficiaries obtain more practical experience and knowledge, they are expected gradually to take over more of their responsibilities and to mobilise more of their technical and financial resources until they gain self-sustainability.

3. Vocational Training Skills Programme
 
 
Table 1: Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Centre Siem Reap (SR-RVTC)
 
Types of Training
Durations
Participants
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
1. Formal Education
Public School By MOE Grade 1-12
(12 years)		Vulnerable Children: Orphans, Street Children and the Disabled People
 
300
(100%)
 
600
(100%)
 
 
900
(100%)
2. Vocational Training Skills
Handicraft Skill6 monthsHomeless women
Handicapped people
Poor Households
30
30
30
60
60
60
90
90
90
Weaving Skill6 monthsHomeless women
Poor Households
30
30
60
60
90
90
Sewing Skill6 monthsVulnerable Children
Homeless women
Poor Households
30
30
30
60
60
60
90
90
90
Carving Skill6 monthsHomeless men
Handicapped people
30
30
60
60
90
90
Painting Skill6 monthsVulnerable Children
Handicapped people
30
30
60
60
90
90
Computer (Software)
Computer (Hardware)		3 months
6 months		Vulnerable Children
Handicapped people
Homeless men
30
30
30
60
60
60
90
90
90
Total  
450
900
13,500
3. Integrated Program Education
Health Care  Vulnerable Children
Homeless people
Handicapped people
Poor Households
50
50
50
50
100
100
100
100
150
150
150
150
Human Rights Vulnerable Children
Homeless people
Handicapped people
Poor Households
50
50
50
50
100
100
100
100
150
150
150
150
Environment Vulnerable Children
Homeless people
Handicapped people
Poor Households
50
50
50
50
100
100
100
100
150
150
150
150
Total  
600
1200
18,000

 
Table 2: Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Centre, Odor Meanchey (OM-RVTC)
 
Types of Training
Durations
Participants
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
1. Formal Education
Public School By MOE Grade 1-12
(12 years)		Vulnerable Children: Orphans, Street Children and the Disabled People
 
300
(100%)
 
600
(100%)
 
 
900
(100%)
2. Vocational Training Skills
Handicraft Skill6 monthsHomeless women
Handicapped people
Poor Households
30
30
30
60
60
60
90
90
90
Weaving Skill6 monthsHomeless women
Poor Households
30
30
60
60
90
90
Sewing Skill6 monthsVulnerable Children
Homeless women
Poor Households
30
30
30
60
60
60
90
90
90
Carving Skill6 monthsHomeless men
Handicapped people
30
30
60
60
90
90
Painting Skill6 monthsVulnerable Children
Handicapped people
30
30
60
60
90
90
Computer (Software)
Computer (Hardware)		3 months
6 months		Vulnerable Children
Handicapped people
Homeless men
30
30
30
60
60
60
90
90
90
Total  
450
900
13,500
3. Integrated Program Education
Health Care  Vulnerable Children
Homeless people
Handicapped people
Poor Households
50
50
50
50
100
100
100
100
150
150
150
150
Human Rights Vulnerable Children
Homeless people
Handicapped people
Poor Households
50
50
50
50
100
100
100
100
150
150
150
150
Environment Vulnerable Children
Homeless people
Handicapped people
Poor Households
50
50
50
50
100
100
100
100
150
150
150
150
Total  
600
1200
18,000
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Programme Titles & Details
 
Areas of Services: The Assisting Cambodian Orphans and the Disabled Organization (ACODO) has its headquarters at Group 5, Watsway Village, Sangkat Salakamrek, Siem Reap town and province, the Kingdom of Cambodia.
 
Programme Titles: 
 
I- Life Skill
II- Vocational Skill 
III- Indigent family support
 
Programme Summary
 
The initials ACODO stand for Assisting Cambodian Orphans and the Disabled Organisation. ACODO was established by a well intended selfless group of people concerned about the difficulties faced by the orphans, poor/street children, the disabled and indigent families in Cambodia nationwide and to respond to the illiteracy of the disabled, orphans and indigent people.
 
ACODO is an accurate charitable non-government organisation that does not support a particular political candidate or policy and is irrespective of race, colour, religion, culture, or political trend. The organisation received the written authorization letter from the Royal Government of Cambodia on the 14th of July, 2008. The permission letter was acknowledged from the Ministry of Interior, Phnom Penh City on the 14th of July, 2008-Number 893.
 
It began in 2002 in Siem Reap, a tourist town, but it was a small foreign language school only.  It became ACODO on the 1st of January, 2008. Siem Reap is the headquarters of ACODO and is the area where it was first established. The local branch here came into existence on the 01st June, 2008. Another branch will take care of Odor Mean Chey, Preah Vihea, Banteay Meanchey, Battam Bang and Pur Sat Province.
 
ACODO’s Founders and Staff: There are now 13 staff members working for ACODO. They have volunteered to work without pay until conditions improve. Even though nobody has received any pay, all of them have been working totally selflessly. This dependence on such dedication is unfair and cannot continue indefinitely. They need to take care and be responsible for their own families as well. They cannot volunteer for long hours and work without pay with no support for their own families at all. They have worked 14 hours (6 am to 8 pm) per day, 7 days per week. Such long hours of work are illegal in a lot of countries. They cannot continue to leave their families unsupported and be absent from them for such long periods.

The disabled who lost their physical ability and could not be able to help themselves have been also supported by ACODO. They were scorned and mocked in the society. Someone sometimes treat them like a useless person. Seeing all of these situations, ACODO is going to assist them to become the valuable people and every person is going to recognize them as useful people and they can join other citizens in developing their society; they have the same civil rights. They were educated on life skills and vocational skills like other orphans and the disabled in ACODO. Besides, they were taught dancing, weaving, sawing, wood and stone sculpture, painting, and tragedy performance. Now there are 10 disabled people who are being educated by ACODO. They stay and study all day in ACODO.