Unicef Making Waves Celebration 2017 I Wella Professionals

Over the course of a year, WELLA-UNICEF Making Waves will provide at least 800 young people throughout Cambodia with vocational training, including hairdressing and life skills education. Through working with NGO partners Friends International, Mith Samlanh on Phnom Penh, Kaliyan Mith in Siem Reap and Mlup Tapang in Preah Sihanouk. The programme supports young people from the poorest and most vulnerable communities; 500 highly vulnerable children and adolescents will be reached with child protection services, and at least 2,200 with life skills, to help reduce vulnerability. In August 2017, 10 Wella Professionals stylists from across the world travelled to Cambodia to take part in this year’s WELLA-UNICEF Making Waves programme, excited to share their skills and passion for hairdressing. Students were trained in a series of essential skills to help equip them with the expertise needed to become a hairdresser – from cutting techniques to highlights. By sharing their own experiences, the team of stylists hoped to inspire their mentees to take ownership of their futures and begin their own careers in hairdressing. In a supportive and safe environment 19 hairdressing students received intensive hairdressing mentoring and a taster training was delivered to an additional 11 hairdressing beginners. This year also saw the mentors deliver the initiative’s ‘training for trainers’ session for seven vocational trainers, building their capacity so they are able to continue deliver