Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School | |
Founder: | Agir Pour le Cambodge |
Location City: | Siem Reap |
Location Country: | Cambodia |
Services: | vocational training |
Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School (km|សាលាបណ្តុះបណ្តាលផ្នែកសណ្ឋាគារសាលាបៃ) is a vocational training school established in 2002 by the French non-governmental organization Agir Pour le Cambodge. It is one of the oldest running hospitality training schools in the country.[1] Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School has partnerships with more than 30 of Cambodia's four and five star hotels.[2]
It provides free one-year training in cooking, front office, restaurant service, housekeeping and beauty treatment to 150 young (17–23 year-old) Cambodians a year from underprivileged families.[1] 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.[2]
By 2022 around 2,000 students had graduated from the Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School.[2] 70 percent of them were employed immediately, while the rest managed to find a job within three weeks after graduating.[1] One of the schools most prominent alumni is Kimsan Sok, former executive chef of the restaurant Embassy,[3] who graduated Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School in 2003.[4] In 2014 a training spa and beauty centre was established in the school with the support from the Chanel Foundation.[5] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Smart Axiata donated computers, tablets and LCD projectors to Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School to help it continue providing distance education to the school's students.[6]