Center for Technical and Vocational Training in Cambodia: Kram Ngoy Center (CKN)

Center for Technical and Vocational Training in Cambodia

Kram Ngoy Center (CKN)

Les Associations participant au Projet du CKN :

Associations participating in Project CKN

ACKN Montpellier

10, rue Ernest Michel

34000 Montpellier, France

Tél : 04 6742 6447 04 6742 6447

What is the CKN (Kram Ngoy Center)

Please visit www.ckncambodia.org

Photos de la 35e JKN du samedi 4 décembre 2010

World skills ASEAN Bangkok (Nov. 2010)

PURPOSE

To contribute to human resource development of Cambodia, participating in training and promotion of economic and technological skills in Cambodia through a permanent transfer, including the Khmer Diaspora, science, technology and know-how developed countries.

MISSION

Creating Futures, the Center for Technical and Vocational Training in Cambodia, Kram Ngoy Center (CKN), the CKN-able to train young people and adults in various fields to make them able to fit into the national economy and there play a dynamic role.

CONCEPT

The "CKN" means the future training center, but also, by extension, the project, program or organization that promotes the realization of this center. The CKN is not only a humanitarian effort, but a work of National Solidarity long breath, looking for leverage, and given the vocation to last.

It built, outside of Cambodia, an organized, confident in itself to achieve autonomy, taking axis on the endogenous development of its resources in order to transfer knowledge, train in time, and effectively manage the aid necessary for its realization. This patient approach and persevering, taking account of cultural and mental, is based on skills from outside the country but also on the experience and proven energy at field. It is characterized by its flexibility and adaptability, inspired by the existing local needs and realities. The CKN plays more roles of pacemaker and support as a direct actor.

While developing the technical, scientific and professional competence, the training aims of human qualities: character, opening spirit, autonomy, initiative and determination. The CKN also considered essential, the opening of Cambodia to the knowledge of the outside. It intends to participate in the development of their transfer and exchange.

The CKN is based on two peer entities: - in France and abroad: a structure of support, technical, scientific and feasible, financial, physical (skills bank, other resources). - Cambodia: a center training and employ-ability.

COOPERATION

CKN mobilizes and unites people of goodwill and Cambodian friends in Cambodia and developing countries which constitute technical forces, moral, intellectual, material and financial invaluable to help educate, train and rebuild Cambodia.

END

250,000 Cambodian children involved in hard labor

A boy resting along a sidewalk while selling cakes in Phnom Penh (Photo: AFP)

08 April 2007
By Sav Yuth
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The International Labor Organization (ILO) which is fulfilling its duty in 7 provinces and cities in Cambodia as part of its program to fight against child labor, said that, currently, about 250,000 Cambodian children are being used to perform hard labor.

Theng Chhavy Rithy, the ILO program director for the elimination of child labor, said that as of now, several tens of thousands children are selling their labor in numerous workplaces located both on land and on water.

Theng Chhavy Rithy said: “If we look at the number of children involved in hard labor, there are about 250,000 of them who are working in all kinds of very hard labor in the fishing industry in Sihanoukville and in Kampot province. In Kep city, children are working in the salt fields, and in Kampot also. They are put to work in brick factories in Siem Reap for example.”

The ILO official also said that ILO is working with the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training to remove 15,000 children from hard labor, and provide them with training so that they can earn a living later on.

The ILO said that the US Department of Labor had provided $5 million in aid to provide vocational training for children removed from hard labor. The aid was provided in 2004, and will last for four years, until 2008.