
Rehab Craft Cambodia is a
non-profit NGO run by and for Cambodians with disabilities.
All earnings are re-invested in training and employment
programs. They pay fair wages, maintain staff benefit
programs to support individual needs. All medical, maternity,
and holiday benefits equal or exceed legal requirements.
All expenses related to disability (such as prosthetics
or wheelchairs) are fully paid by RCC. They maintain
a staff loan program for individual, family or emergency
needs.
More than one-half of Rehab Craft's
members are landmine amputees. The second-leading
cause of disability among their membership is polio.
Societal attitudes further 'disable' people by closing
doors and limiting their lives. Rehab Craft addresses
both the needs and the perceptions of this community,
by giving them responsibility for their own futures.
Because Cambodians with disabilities
have had so few opportunities, they don't hire on the
basis of education or job experience. They start
at the beginning, and invest in their members.
Each producer had six months of training before they
began making products - now; they're the most highly-skilled
team in the country.

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