Park Hyatt Siem Reap & LHA Sewing School (STS)
For many young women in Cambodia with lower education, employment, opportunities, and earning capacity.
Examples of more common unskilled occupations include tending the family land or selling vegetables at the local market. Others may need to work in brick-factories or on construction sites where they are subjected to hard labor for six days a week with few workers rights and a low monthly wages.
The Park Hyatt Siem Reap & LHA Sewing School (STS) offers disadvantaged young women from poor families the chance to break the cycle of poverty and improve their future by learning sewing and other life skills to prepare them for brighter futures.
LHA established the Sewing School in 2006 with funds support from the Park Hyatt Siem Reap, when the Hotel was still the Hotel de la Paix. Upon re-branding as Park Hyatt Siem Reap in 2013, the STS continued to be fully funded by Park Hyatt Siem Reap.
Once students are selected to undergo the STS, they are supported with an 8-month sewing training program, accommodation duration of the course, health care and other benefits. By the course’s end, each student masters over thirty different sewing skills, including how to sew, measure and cut on paper and fabric, iron and how to link all parts to make the finished clothes and products. They also undertake lessons in Khmer literature, English, culture, basic small business skills, morality, social awareness, and life skills.
STS students have the opportunity to participate in cross training and internships at Park Hyatt Siem Reap, specifically in housekeeping with a focus on linen room, seamstress and laundry operations, which could lead to future job roles in the hotel and lifelong careers in the hospitality industry.
Upon graduation each student is given a sewing machine and small starter-pack to begin their new life with their new skillset. The Park Hyatt Siem Reap & LHA Sewing School enables students to generate sustainable household incomes and support their families by opening the doors to economic opportunities, such as working in or contracting to the hotel and the hospitality industry, starting their own sewing business or by finding work in companies, factories or sewing shops.
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