Phnom Penh, April 9, 2024: The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training has continued the campaign to promote the second round of technical and vocational training programs to target young people in the community to provide information on free education and monthly stipends. The campaign started in early March 2024 to continue recruiting young people from poor and vulnerable families to enter the second phase, while the first phase will end in May 2024.

Since the technical and vocational training program for 1.5 million young people from poor and vulnerable families was opened on March 15, 2024, the trainees have been studying the first vocational skills. For more than 3 months, smoothly in 10 fields and 38 majors, and has been doing internships in factories, enterprises to practice practical work in addition to the lessons learned.

Please be reminded that on November 14, 2023, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, His Excellency Hun Manet, announced the implementation of vocational training programs for 1.5 million young people from poor and vulnerable families. To provide technical and vocational skills to young Cambodians to have a decent job to improve their family life even more. This mechanism is also a strategy to turn Cambodia into a people whose economy depends on a skilled workforce.