Cafe celebrates 15 years aiding disabled cause
Epic Arts Cafe is a Kampot-based social enterprise that grew from one woman’s wish to provide work opportunities for deaf and disabled people as well as a welcoming and accommodating hang-out for them, particularly deaf students. Established in 2006, today the Cafe stands as a model for an inclusive working environment within the local community, providing employment for people and raising funds that go towards the other work carried out by the Epic Arts organisation. “In 2003 Katie Goad who is one of epic arts founder travelled to Cambodia and saw a need for the arts in Kampot to promote disability right,” Epic Arts’ director for Cambodia Onn Sokny tells The Post. The Arts Cafe is actually just one of three programmes sponsored by Epic Arts, an international NGO based in Cambodia and registered as a charity in the UK since 2003. “We use the arts as a form of expression and empowerment to bring people with and without disabilities together. We promote the message that every perso...