Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School ( km, សាលាបណ្តុះបណ្តាលផ្នែកសណ្ឋាគារសាលាបៃ) is a

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school established in 2002 by the French

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Agir Pour le Cambodge. It is one of the oldest running

hospitality Hospitality is the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with some amount of goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis de Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de J ...

training schools in the country. Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School has partnerships with 19 of

Siem Reap Siem Reap ( km, សៀមរាប, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia. Siem Reap has French colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old F ...

's four and five star hotels. It provides free one-year training in

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, restaurant service,

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and

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to 108 young (17–23 year-old) Cambodians a year from underprivileged families. Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School prioritizes training young women, therefore approximately 70% of its students are female. During their training, all students are required to do two two-month internships at two different hotels. All students also receive a US$25 monthly stipend. By 2011 around 3,500 students had graduated from the Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School. 70 percent of them were employed immediately, while the rest managed to find a job within three weeks after graduating. One of the schools most prominent alumni is Kimsan Sok,

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of the restaurant Embassy, who graduated Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School in 2003. In 2014 a training spa and beauty centre was established in the school with the support from the

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Foundation. In 2020, during the

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Smart Axiata Smart Axiata Company Limited, doing business as Smart (formerly known as Smart Mobile) was acquired by Hello Axiata, is Cambodia's telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies ove ...

donated

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s and

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s to Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School to help it continue providing

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to the school's students.

References

External links

Official website of Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School
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