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Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia (ACAC)’s 2022 Graduation
Thursday, March 31, 2022. Hats off to the graduating class of spring 2022! The last few years were marked by the pandemic, and it has been some time since we have last been able to come together in person and celebrate such an event. We are, therefore, all the more...
Shakhtar Social, EFDN, and Legia Foundation (Warsaw) launched a campaign in support of Ukraine and its people
In March 2022, as part of the joint project of Shakhtar Social, EFDN, and Legia Foundation (Warsaw), they launched a campaign in support of Ukraine and its people. Within a month, European clubs have collected essential goods for internally displaced persons (IDPs)...
Taras Stepanenko | Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal | Shift 360 Foundation | Shakthar Social Foundation
Thanks Taras Stepanenko for support for Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal with Shift 360 Foundation and Shakthar Social Foundation About Campaign Shift 360 battles fear with love and care by helping Shakhtar Social Foundation welcoming Ukrainians, internally...
Júnior Moraes | Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal | Shift 360 Foundation | Shakthar Social Foundation
Thank Júnior Moraes for support for Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal with Shift 360 Foundation and Shakthar Social Foundation About Campaign Shift 360 battles fear with love and care by helping Shakhtar Social Foundation welcoming Ukrainians, internally displaced...
ACAC / Naomi Tami Memorial Scholarship Fund Graduate Speaks at RewirED summit in Dubai
Hout Somaly, a 31-year-old Naomi Tami Memorial Scholarship Fund scholar graduated from the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia (ACAC) in 2020. She recently spoke at a session at the RewirED Summit, organized by Dubai Cares and in partnership with Expo 2020 Dubai. Dubai...
ACAC is a Now Leader in Education Tech – An Interview with Vidano Kernem
An interview with Vidano Kernem, Chief Operating Officer at The Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia. Shift 360 Foundation supported ACAC to undertake a large digitization project in 2020-21 - can you give us an overview of the project? In 2020 ACAC partnered with...
Shift 360 Signs the Dignified Storytelling Pledge
Today, Shift 360 is proud to sign the Dignified Storytelling Pledge. The Dignified Storytelling pledge is guided by the 10 principles of dignified storytelling which were developed through a consultative process with a diverse group of stakeholders from UN agencies,...
Shift 360 Foundation Study into New Approaches to Education Nears Completion
Shift 360 Foundation is currently undertaking a feasibility study on behalf of Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport into the potential benefits and practical factors around beginning a job-skills creation program for high school children in Grades 10 -...
ACAC Supports Local Healthcare Workers With Food Donations
This week, Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia (ACAC) has prepared food donations in support of healthcare workers at two nearby centers in Phnom Penh - Samdach Euv & Samdach Me Referral Hospital, and the Covid-19 Testing Center located at Bak Touk High...
Video Interview with Pum Monyreth – A Shift360 and Naomi Tami Scholarship Student
Before joining the ACAC, scholarship recipient Pum Monyreth grew up in Chibodia Children's Home, an NGO in Phnom Penh supporting children without parents. With their help, Monyreth successfully completed her high school degree and then applied for the Naomi Tami...
An Interview with Shift 360’s Naomi Tami Scholarship Recipient – Chhum Dimang
Please tell us about how you came to the ACAC. I came to know about the ACAC and the Naomi Tami Scholarship Program through a friend of mine. We used to work together – it was an office job at a library - and he knew that this was not the right occupation for me. I’ve...
Am Sokha’s Story – How Shift 360’s Naomi Tami Scholarship Helps His Dreams Become Reality
Born in 1994, on Koh Dach Island, a small island on the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Sokha grew up in a poor family with few opportunities. His father earned his money working as a cyclo rider and his mother as a silk weaver which was hardly enough to make their...
ACAC Alumna Thara Theany is Fulfilling Her Lifelong Dream
In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, ACAC graduating student Theany, was facing a challenging situation. After the worldwide lockdown, finally being able to travel back to Cambodia from France, where she completed her internship at the renowned restaurant...
ACAC Graduate Juan Osorio Discovers His Passion for Sharing Mexican Cuisine
Juan Osorio, a Mexican national, is one of the many thriving career-changers who have found their success after laying a foundation with a culinary education from the ACAC. Dissatisfied with his studies in political science, Juan moved to Cambodia for a sabbatical...
A Tribute to My Friend Edwin Bucher
There are a small number of people who helped me greatly to start the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia. They are very unique friends who took in their hearts my vision, the showed their commitment by contributing their time and skills to lay the foundation and the...
New Students and New Horizons – ACAC 2019
Of the three new scholarship students who started their journeys at the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodian in September, two are young women. According to them, in traditional Khmer culture women cook at home, but professional kitchens are generally the exclusive...
Graduation of Scholarship Students December 2019
New Scholarship Students Pursue their Dreams, April 2019 Intake
Six new scholarship students entered the Academy last April, joining the ranks of a growing number of underprivileged Khmers who hope to become professional chefs in the future. Filled with enthusiasm, they shared their first...
A Special Recognition for Aspiring Chefs
At ACAC, the 6-month internship program with partners who are leaders in the culinary industry prepares our students for the real world. We recently welcomed back four Naomi Fund’s scholarship students who have done their internships in different restaurants in the...
Senior Scholarship Students Return to ACAC
Students, including scholarship recipients, return from internship to finish their last series of classes at ACAC. As seven scholarship students returned from their first year internships and settled back into classes at the Academy, one thing was evident: they all...
7 New Scholarship Students Start at ACAC
“I am happy to be here. I see so many new things! My dream is to be a chef in a hotel. I want to have experience, and then start my own business. I have big dreams.” – Sok Panha Sok Panha is a scholarship student who just began her first semester at the ACAC on...
Pierre Tami Talks Social Entrepreneurship at Smart-Up
Pierre Tami is interviewed about social entrepreneurship by Swiss TV moderator, Sonja Hasler at Lucerne University's Smart-Up. Every month key leaders in the start-up sector in Lucerne, Switzerland, gather together at Smart-up – support for start-ups. The gathering is...
Using forks and spoons to end poverty in Cambodia – An Interview with Pierre Tami
Pierre Tami with the ACAC students, Hang Usa (left) and Mao Davin (right) at the Swiss Hotel Management School, Lucerne (SHL) in September for the Shift360 Gala Fundraiser. Image: Boris Bürgisser (20 September 2018). "Driven by the credo that poverty can only...
‘Competing with other countries with low wages will not be enough.’ A plea for high-quality skills training in Cambodia
Magnus Saemundsson (right) with Pierre Tami (left) and Cambodia's Minister of Education (centre). ‘Competing with other countries with low wages will not be enough.’ A plea for high-quality skills training in Cambodia. Magnus Saemundsson has been working in...
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