Cambodian Garment Sector makes the front page

The March Edition of Asia Life, the Cambodian monthly free magazine, put the Cambodian garment industry on the front page!

Kevin Plenty, Quantum Clothing factory manager, one of HIP partner factories, presents its achievements and  the benefits given to its workers including health insurance:
"Quantum offers workers incentives, including English lessons for interested employees. Over a hundred workers currently receive two hours of tuition per week, and a new class will begin the course in the next six months.
Free healthcare is another benefit. Through a micro health insurance scheme operated by French NGO GRET, Quantum ensures that all workers have access to seven public health facilities, additional to the in-house medical clinic required by labour law.
A total of 5,000 workers are enrolled in the Health Insurance Project, with Quantum as the sole factory to have 100 percent worker inclusion. Whereas factories are responsible for half the monthly cost, a sum of 80 cents with workers paying the remainder, Quantum covers the entire US$1.60.
“We try to make sure that when they come in to work, all they’re thinking about is their work,” explains Plenty."

Night Registrations

At Suntex, one fourth of the workers work during the night...
To register the night workers, Suntex let HIP enter the factory and organize Night Registration Sessions over 3 days from March 2nd to March 4th...
200 new workers came to join...
At 8 pm, HIP team arrives in the factory to have time to prepare the Night Session - Banners, videos, sound system, T-shirts, etc... in the factory canteen...

At 9 pm, workers started to arrive at the canteen for their break... And came to register to HIP, took a picture and fill in some information...

During registration, HIP team organized animations in the factory: video watching from "Precious Girl Competition" organized by ILO, games, music... And finally Suntex workers started to dance!

Risk Pooling and Insurance Education - Treasury Pot Game

One or twice a month, during HIP visits to the garment factories, the team plays the Treasury Pot Game with a small group of workers to enable them to understand the advantages of health insurance.
This game has been developped by the Microinsurance Academy (MIA).

To understand the game, you can see a demonstration below:

GMAC Annual Report

HIP will publish an article about 2010 achievements in the 2010 GMAC Annual Report!

New Poster Step-By-Step

From today, HIP has a new poster to ensure that it's clear for the members how to get access to HIP health care service for free...

To be shown in all the partner factories and health facilities...