Café Yejj
A bistro Cafe in the heart of Phnom Penh

ABOUT CAFÉ YEJJ

We aim to bring you the best foods with the best service in a unique setting, whilst providing employment and skills training for underprivileged people, especially women, from vulnerable backgrounds.

Café Yejj Goals

  • To provide our customers with the best quality foods and service.
  • A Unique atmosphere and ambiance in Phnom Penh.
  • To establish a long term profitable and socially responsible business.
  • To provide underprivileged young people and vulnerable women with employable skills and ethical lifestyles, breaking cycles of poverty.
  • To promote fairly traded foods and local socially responsible businesses and NGOs wherever possible.

Café Yejj Model Advantages

  • Innovative social enterprise model committed to positively impacting society, focusing especially on women.
  • Greater skills and capacity opportunities for women.
  • Establishing replicable socially responsible business models.
  • Valuing women in credible and important business and employment.
  • Women and other vulnerable young people in Café employment become role models for others in the community.
  • Breaking long term donor dependency.
  • Private sector business is more sustainable in the longer term.

Employees will work and be trained in the café for 2 years. After this time the Café will provide assistance to access other employment opportunities and new staff would be recruited. This means more women and disadvantaged young people are trained in sustainable livelihoods.