Footprints Cafés graduated from Cambridge Social Ventures in November 2015.
Idea
Footprint Cafés is a restaurant, bookshop and event space in one.
Our mission is to provide a high-quality restaurant experience, so as to generate profits to invest in educational programmes in Siem Reap province. We strive to achieve this responsibly. We source ingredients locally and recycle where possible. We promote local culture and social projects, as well as host a number of educational events. We believe in responsible employment and investment in training.
The menu comprises traditional Khmer cuisine, as well as a selection of international dishes. We have tried to source the ingredients responsibly, often from local social enterprises.
Our books have been donated by friends from all over the world, with over 3,000 titles. We also sell books, gift cards and note pads for local charities and social enterprises.
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Changing the world, one café at a time
A café near the mystical temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, set up with support from Cambridge Judge Business School, provides an opportunity for tourists to give back to the local community. Along the riverfront in Siem Reap in north-western Cambodia, the smell of amok, a sweet, fermented fish stock, hangs in the air as tourists dodge between tuk-tuks and hawkers selling deep-fried scorpions on sticks. Visitors throng to the area to visit the fabled Angkor Wat temple complex, the largest religious building in the world. Yet among the abundance of hotels, restaurants and bars in Siem Reap, there is abject poverty nearby – as Georgina Hemmingway, founder of Footprint Cafés, a Cambridge Social Venture, discovered when she first visited the city in 2010. "It's very easy as a tourist in Siem Reap to arrive in the city, stay in a swanky hotel for three days, get a lift in a tuk-tuk along probably the only smooth road in the city to the temples," says Georgina. "The lived reality of a tourist and the lived reality of someone in the community are very different." So Georgina set out to do something to bridge that gulf – with help from the…
Founders of 2 ventures with Cambridge Judge Business School connections – LifNano Therapeutics and Footprints Cafes – honoured at the annual Business Weekly Awards.