Message from Director

Dear Sir/Madam:

First, greetings to you and your staff from Cambodian Handicraft Association (CHA) for Landmine and Polio Disabled! We are writing to appeal for your help and cooperation during the implementation of the activities in the program of Cambodian Handicraft Association (CHA) for Landmine and Polio Disabled. We need to create more activities to give the opportunities for the disabled trainees/ producers who have been unemployed, and who have had nothing to do to get the basic skills for their future life. In Cambodia, the basic needs of the disabled people and their families are better long-term benefits from skills training, income generation and job placement program. We decided to set up the programs in Phnom Penh and in Siem Reap since 2000 to help the disabled graduates - from Skill Training Programs - who live in the rural areas without income generation - for their life, and the disabled trainees who have had nothing to do with their families in the villages. Thus, sources of income generation for disabled people are better satisfied through skilled employment and business opportunities in the program and workshops.

The main goals of our program are new skills and services meet the market demand and are effectively used and applied by graduates who graduated from skill training program and they have not been employed, and the trainees who have been taught basic skills, and we try to find the ways to help them work in the workshops and practice their skills for six months to one-year period. We act like this because we think that the integration of the disabled into mainstream society is prioritized, and business as well as employment opportunities for the graduates and trainees are supported. It was only months ago when they were still on the streets and markets. No hope, No education, No home, No Skills, No money, No friends. But now they have begun to learn skills and produce handcrafts for the markets of the world instead of begging for money on the streets and markets. As for a director, we try to look for any assistance to strengthen the program and for ways of being self-sufficient. At the moment the program depends on some help from outside sources.

Independence, confidence and integration into society will help the trainees and graduates by returning them with a skill to the rural sectors and therefore speed up the process of development. We really require assistance from your department to organize and run the programs for the disabled persons to get the income to deal with daily standard of living from sales on online.

Finally, we would like to thank you very much in advance for your kindest cooperation with our Program and for considering this as well as for supporting our efforts by providing us with any kind assistance to help our project to support ourselves. We will look forward to your active process on online with mutual relationship. Please do not hesitate to ask us any questions if you are in need of further information.