friends international
REBAVA is fortunate to provide our students with the opportunity to connect with one of the most successful social enterprises in Cambodia: Friends International. And if time spent learning about Friends' work & dining at their amazing restaurants doesn't inspire them to believe that big dreams can come true, we're not sure what will.
Friends' training businesses are workshops providing vocational training to marginalized young people & finding them employment opportunities afterwards, in order to make them productive citizens of their country.
Friends' training businesses function as real businesses, generating an income for the projects themselves & the organization at large. Friends has developed over 10 different vocational trainings, all based on the students' interests & real life job opportunities in the market.
Friends' training businesses have attained various levels of development & maturity. Some of them are still in a rather early stage, thus not making any profits; others are run as highly profitable units. The most successful training businesses are the training restaurants. Each having reached financial break-even in their first year, they are training dozens of young people every year to work in the dramatically growing hospitality sector in Cambodia & Laos.
The Friends' network of restaurants is still expanding: In 2011 they founded the TREE Alliance consolidating all their hospitality activities in one franchise-like partnership program.
The following video takes us on a brief tour through the kitchen of Romdeng, a wonderful Friends' restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. And yes, the tarantulas eventually find their way onto customers' dishes!
Friends' training businesses function as real businesses, generating an income for the projects themselves & the organization at large. Friends has developed over 10 different vocational trainings, all based on the students' interests & real life job opportunities in the market.
Friends' training businesses have attained various levels of development & maturity. Some of them are still in a rather early stage, thus not making any profits; others are run as highly profitable units. The most successful training businesses are the training restaurants. Each having reached financial break-even in their first year, they are training dozens of young people every year to work in the dramatically growing hospitality sector in Cambodia & Laos.
The Friends' network of restaurants is still expanding: In 2011 they founded the TREE Alliance consolidating all their hospitality activities in one franchise-like partnership program.
The following video takes us on a brief tour through the kitchen of Romdeng, a wonderful Friends' restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. And yes, the tarantulas eventually find their way onto customers' dishes!
