The ASSET-H&C network (Association of Southeast Asian Social Enterprises for Training in Hospitality & Catering), led by the IECD, is organising the next public conference “Holistic Sustainability in Hospitality : From Action to Impact with Communities in Southeast Asia”, which will take place on 27th November in Bangkok, Thailand.

Seventeen students celebrated their graduation from La Boulangerie Francaise Ho Chi Minh City. Every year, the bakery school supported by the European Institute of Cooperation and Development (IECD) provides 20 young people from vulnerable backgrounds with technical and soft skills to be competent bakers and pastry chefs. Despite the challenging economic context due to the Covid-19, 85% of graduates have secured employment.

Trần Thành is 17 years old and is student in Residential & Industrial Electricity at Ho Chi Minh City’s Technical & Economical College.

Les écoles de La Boulangerie française au Vietnam redonnent de l’espoir aux jeunes issus de milieux défavorisés…

Thanks to the IECD’s basic management training course, Mrs. Bay is saving her business!

The Bread-Pastry Making School in Hô Chi Minh City will enable young vulnerable people to get a decent and sostainable employment.

Miss Van’s life has long been inherently related to unstable retailing businesses. She left her hometown in the Mekong Delta for Saigon in search for a better life…