Centre for disabled to boost incomes
Social Affairs Ministry plans to build a $10 million centre complete with shop lots.
Tag: Social Affairs Ministry
New centre for mentally ill to open
A new mental illness treatment centre in Kandal province’s Kandal Stueng district will begin operations later this month.
Ministry signs MoU for $2 million project on rehabilitation
A MoU worth over $2 million focuses on disability and rehabilitation of drug addicts.
Ministry wants more disabled people employed
Social Affairs Ministry urges officials to employ more people with disabilities.
Ministry wants more disabled people educated and employed
The Social Affairs Ministry has urged its officials to train and employ more people with disabilities in a bid to improve their living conditions.
MoU signed to allocate $7m to help children
The Social Affairs Ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eight non-government organizations(NGOs) to allocate nearly $7 million over the next three years to help orphans, young crime victims, and vulnerable children throughout the country.
National strategy to protect children
A draft national strategy to further protect children and promote their rights from this year to 2023.
Ministry to absorb training centre
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Social Affairs Ministry to absorb Afesip Tomdy’s Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Centre staff into the ministry.
Japan giving $2 million to help protect children
Japan to provide $2 million to Cambodia to end all forms of violence against children.
Joint directive to benefit disabled persons
All buildings are required to accommodate those with physical disabilities.
Push to hire more disabled workers
The Social Affairs Ministry yesterday called on state institutions and the private sector to hire more disabled workers, noting that the number of those working in the public sector has increased this year.
Ministry extends agreement to help victims of violence
A MoU with four NGOs to spend about $2 million to help women and children.
Finding ways to end violence against children
Cambodia and 20 countries meet to end violence against children by 2030.
Social Affairs Ministry pushes for sign language
The Social Affairs Minister has urged the public to study sign language in order to better communicate with those with hearing disabilities.
Japan-built institute to pioneer national elderly care standards
Ministry requests a Japanese company’s help in building elderly training centre.
Man arrested in maids scandal
Anti-human trafficking police arrests the nephew of a former government official linked to the trafficking of labourers in Saudi Arabia.
Employers under disabled job scrutiny
Employers – public and private – which do not meet their obligations to take on disabled people are to face cash penalties.
Official accused of debt-rage beating
A Social Affairs official is charged with beating a 28-year-old woman and threatening to kill her in anger at her demands that he repay $25,000.
Saudi maid scandal widens
A former secretary of state accused of illegally sending a migrant worker to Saudi Arabia is accused of doing so again.
