Disabled integration touted

11 December 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Disabled persons / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Government / Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports / Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation / Social development
Cambodian Independent Teachers Association / CITA / Koh Pich Exhibition Center / Krousar Thmey / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Rong Chhun

Disabled Cambodians were promised a “society without barriers” by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday in a speech on Cambodia’s Day of Persons with Disabilities in Phnom Penh.

About 1,500 disabled Cambodians marked the day at a gathering of more than 2,000 people in the capital’s Koh Pich Exhibition Center. …

Hun Sen pledged to recruit an additional 1,000 teachers annually over the next two years, adding that the recruitment of teachers to teach disabled students at the NGO would mean they received two salaries, one from the civil service and one from Krousar Thmey. It was unclear if this pledge could apply to other similar NGOs. …

 Vong Sokheng
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