Creating new career pathways to reduce poverty, illiteracy and health risks, while transforming and empowering Cambodian women's lives.
Community health psychology provides a framework for local citizens themselves to systematically affect change in health and social inequalities, particularly through Participatory Action Research (PAR). The Cambodian NGO SiRCHESI launched a 24-month Hotel Apprenticeship Program (HAP) in 2006 to provide literacy, English, social skills, health education, hotel skills-training, work experience and a living wage to women formerly selling beer in restaurants; there they had faced workplace risks including HIV/AIDS, alcohol overuse, violence and sexual coercion. Quantitative and qualitative analyses indicate changes in health-related knowledge, behaviour, self-image and empowerment, as HAP trainees were monitored and evaluated within their new career trajectories.
Lee
Helen
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Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK. h.a.n.lee@staffs.ac.uk
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D002160:Cambodia; D002322:Career Mobility; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D015397:Program Evaluation; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior