Beach trip!

A group of volunteers from SIA's 5Cs volunteers organised and brought our Get Ready girls to the beach in Sihanoukville. We had staff accompanying, plus the usual checks, and the trip turned into a fantastic experience for the girls.

For many of them, this was their first trip out of Phnom Penh. The beach was a hit, and they came back talking a mile a minute about the trip, and most importantly, when would they be able to go back again?

The make-up workshop. (Dale Edmonds: We had a long discussion about whether to teach make-up skills.

We know make-up is going to be something the girls will fool around with as teenagers and young adults. Jobwise, basic pretty make-up is a plus for a young woman here. It makes you look polished and grown-up, and almost all our adult female staff wear some make-up.

But given that make-up can also be used as part of sex-work, we were worried we'd be encouraging them to value physical beauty over inner and that the community would see us as teaching adult sexualised behavior through make-up.

SIA staff have fantastic make-up, as anyone who's travelled Singapore Airlines knows, and I talked to the volunteers about our concerns. They decided to teach light professional make-up, treating it as a job skill and a way to make the most of your own natural beauty.

Talking to the staff afterwards, I was really happy to hear their positive feedback and enthusiasm for the way the workshop was held. Thanks, SIA!)

Dinner by the beach!

Yoga exercises to wake-up in the morning. That's how the cabin crew make it through long flights *g*

Thank you SIA!