Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School () 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

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training schools in the country. Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School has partnerships with more than 30 of Cambodia'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 150 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. By 2022 around 2,000 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, former

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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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donated

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s, tablets 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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