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Why have we created
Bayon Pastry School?
PASTRY SCHOOL
BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
អង្គការបាយ័ន អប់រ ំ និង អភិវឌ្ឍន៍
The situation of education in Cambodia
• Difficulty for families to pay for their
children’s education
• Insufficient infrastructures
• Limited access to higher education
(university or vocational training)
Early marriage,
unstable jobs
Limited decent jobs
for young people
Young women
endure family
pressure
Pastry in Siem Reap: a real career opportunity
The city welcomes millions of tourists every year and an
increasing number of hotels and restaurants. However, those
establishments have difficulties finding qualified workers, able
to meet the high expectations of clients.
Indeed, the existing vocational trainings in Siem Reap are either
unaffordable by most youth, or free as offered by NGOs who are
overwhelmed with demands. Moreover, they are rarely reserved
to girls.
Our project of creating a vocational training in pastry met:
• the needs of the local population who doesn’t have access
to those types of training and therefore to a stable job
with a decent salary;
• the needs of the expanding tourism and catering sectors.
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PASTRY SCHOOL
BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
អង្គការបាយ័ន អប់រ ំ និង អភិវឌ្ឍន៍
A vocational training
for underprivileged women
A free training
The training starts in September and lasts 11 months, including 2 internships
(six and ten weeks) in our partner hotels and restaurants in Siem Reap. This
is an important part of the training as it gives the students experience, and
help them accustoming to their future working environment.
We also provide the students with a free accommodation, a bicycle, a lunch
from Monday to Friday as well as monthly subsidiary money to help them
buy food.
The pastry classes: 4 hours a day
Practice classes
• The students are trained in basic pastry techniques, they learn how to
use the different utensils as well as a professional kitchen equipment.
• They learn how to cook perfectly dry cakes, fresh pastries and bakery.
Theoretical classes
They cover:
• Recognize the different types of ingredients and their quality
• Understand and reproduce a recipe
• Do a technical sheet
Strong awareness to hygiene and presentation
• Personal hygiene and professional attitude
• Hygiene and security in a professional environment: the kitchen
The complementary classes
• Intensive English classes, which are necessary to anyone willing to
work in the tourism sector.
• Calculation in order to be at ease with counting and unit conversion.
• IT classes to be able to use a computer, send emails and use basic
softwares such as Word and Excel.
• Introduction to business: accounting, stock management
• Personal development to help them be independant and self-confident
and prepare them to apply for a job: writing a resume and a cover letter
and doing a job interview.
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Who are our students?
Selection criteria
To apply for the training, the candidates must match the following criteria:
• being aged between 17 and 25 years old
• having at least a sixth grade education level
• the family’s monthly income must not exceed an average of $35 per person
• being motivated, honest, hard working and having a strong team spirit
Some examples of the families’ living conditions
Selection process
The candidates fill and send an application form to Bayon Pastry School explaining their family’s condition and why
they want to join the training. A first selection is made and the concerned students attend an oral and written khmer
test as well as a general knowledge test.
Based on the results, a second selection is made and our social workers visit the families to:
• check if the living conditions match the information written on the application form;
• talk with the parents to ensure that they are willing to support their daughter to follow the training.
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Our history
PASTRY SCHOOL
BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
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Our partnership with Alain Cojean: a guarantee of quality
The project of the Pastry School was implemented in partnership with
Alain Cojean, French restaurateur and Fabien Rouillard, Fauchon’s
former Pastry Chef. They successfully created Shuktara Cakes, a
Pastry Boutique in Calcutta, India, helping young disabled men. Their
process, recipes and management were the base for our training
programme in Siem Reap. Fabien Rouillard came in person to train
our Pastry Chef before the beginning of the first school year.
The project of Bayon Pastry School was entirely led by Ange Moray who worked on many aspects such
as the building’s drawing, the recruitment of the staff and the students, the education programme,
the establishment of partnership with hotels, the opening of the coffee shop, etc. She directed the
school until November 2015.
November 2013: Beginning of the building construction
January to March 2014:
• Establishment of partnerships with hotels for the students’ internships
• Elaboration of the training programme
• Elaboration the selection process
May 2014: Recruitment of our Pastry Chef Sokhoeurn Morn
Graduated from Paul Dubrule in 2007, she has
been a brilliant pastry student and the head of
her class. She has worked in several high standing
hotels, among which Meridien in Siem Reap and
Sofitel in Bangkok.
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Our history
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BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
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July 2014:
• End of the building construction
• Selection of 17 students
September 2014: The school welcomes its first intake!
December 2014: Opening ceremony of the school
Mai Duong Nguon Hoa, president of the NGO in Cambodia and Vincent Robert,
president of the NGO in France
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BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
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Our history
March 2015: Opening of the coffee shop
Why?
• an income to help finance the vocational training
• an education tool to put the students in a professional environment (service,
customer relation, english)
• a way to sell the cakes made by the students in pastry class
Our main customers are the tourists and expatriates of Siem Reap. They can
enjoy hot and ice drinks, pastries and dry cakes (such as our famous « financier »
created by Cojean).
August 2015: 100% of the students passed their diploma!
And all of them had a job three weeks after the end of the school year, with salaries that are 20% to 100% higher
than the average khmer wage. A real pride and a great motivation for the team of the NGO to pursue this project!
The graduation ceremony
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BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
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Success stories
Srey Leak
Before she joined Bayon Pastry School, Srey Leak was
living in a village of Banteay Mean Chey province with her
mother and her older sister.
Her mother is a construction worker and her father passed
away many years ago.
Today, Srey Leak works as a pastry and bakery cook at
Angkor Village Resort and earns $140 a month.
Her family house
Savieth
Savieth comes from a village of Banteay Mean Chey province
where she lived with her mother and three of her five brothers
and sisters.
With a big family to support and a very low income as a farmer,
her mother couldn’t help her access a higher education.
Savieth works now as a pastry and bakery cook at Paris Bakery,
where she earns $130 a month.
Her family house
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BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
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Our history
September 2015: The school welcomes 16 new students for its 2nd intake
New goal: Develop partnerships with
hotels and restaurants to provide them
with our products, in order to help finance
the training.
The NGO hires Chloé Marty, in charge of sales development.
October 2015: Launch of bakery products
An event is organized to promote the breads and croissants to the hotels
and restaurants.
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BAYON EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
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Our history
November 2015: Claire Buisson
takes over the school direction
December 2015: Bayon pastry School, supplier of hotels and restaurants!
Thanks to Chloé’s hard work, we regularly provide around fifteen
hotels and restaurants with our products (breads, viennoiseries,
pastries). The school hired someone to deliver our products every
day.
January 2016: Launch of the monthly Open air cinema
Every month, we organize a movie night in the coffee shop. A few
days before, people vote on Facebook for the movie they want to
watch among a selection. By making a $4.5 donation to the NGO,
they can watch the movie in the coffee shop and have a drink and
a selection of cakes made by our students. So far, the event has
proved to be an efficient way to raise money for the training.
24th April 2016: The team of Bayon Pastry School is happy to celebrate the
1st anniversary of the coffee shop with you!
Today, you will be the first to taste the Natan, a recipe generously
created specially for us by the French Natan foundation. We hope it
will delight you!