Artisans D'Angkor

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

On the 3rd Day, we visited Artisans d’Angkor (AA), a phenomenally successful company that was set up to help young people find work in their home villages making traditional arts and crafts.

The Chantiers-Écoles de formation professionnelle, a professional training school, was founded to help young Cambodians rediscover traditional handicrafts and give them the opportunity to take part in the rebuilding process their country had undertaken.
The CEFP is a public institution which was established in response to an urgent need to train disadvantaged young people with little formal education, living for the most part in rural areas, and offer them a job entry program.

Artisans d'Angkor was established as a natural offshoot of the Chantiers-Écoles project as a school-to-work transition for the young craftsmen that had been trained. The skilled artisans could thus be organized into a self-sustaining handicraft network

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This workers a mute.
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And they used hand signs as shown on this board to communicate with each others.
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There are many diffrent handicrafts like stoner and wood carvings here.
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The various processes of wood carvings of a Buddha.
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Various types of sandstones used for the handicrafts.
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