Kampuchean United Front For National Salvation - Organizations

Organizations

Among the more important mass organizations affiliated with the KUFNCD as an umbrella organization were the following:

• Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions (KFTU). It had 62,000 members in December 1983 and was officially described as "the training school of the working class for economic and administrative management".
• Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Youth Union (KPRYU), an important reservoir of candidate members for the KPRP and "a school of Marxism" for people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-six. As of March 1987, when the Youth Union held its Second National Congress, there were more than 50,000 members in villages, factories, enterprises, hospitals, schools, public offices, and the armed forces.
• Kampuchean Revolutionary Youth Association (KRYA), an 800,000- member group for children (aged 9 to 16).
• Kampuchean Young Pioneers Organization (KYPO), a 450,000-member group for preschoolers under the general guidance of the KPRYU and the KRYA, both part of the Pioneer movement.
• Kampuchean Revolutionary Women's Association (KRWA), which claimed 923,000 members as of October 1983.