Six Month Reprot

SAO SARY FOUNDATION

LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMME COORDINATOR

6 MONTH PROJECT REPORT

1. Executive Summary

Project Name: Livelihood Programme
Project Location: Peanica Kam Village, Rokha Thom Commune,
Chbar Mon District, Kampong Speu Province,Cambodia
Livelihood Coordinator: Pholla Kang
Email: pholla@ssfcambodia.org
pholla.kang@yahoo.com
Mobile: (+855) 089932766
Reporting Period: January-June 2010


2. Introduction

SSF Foundation is a nonreligious, non-political, and independent humanitarian organization devoted to ending human trafficking and helping poor children and families gain economic independence in impoverished communities. SSF was founded in 2006 and officially recognized by the national government of the Kingdom of Cambodia as a non-profit organization in 2007. SSF has special one program that have strong goal and strength strategy is the Livelihood program that this program will be assist the poor and poorest people to have better living. Other hand this program has assisted many family in Somrong Tong district amount a hundreds family.

3. Summary of Activities

• Business Support for HIV family: Cambodian societies have serious discrimination on people living with HIV. To cut this down, SSF had worked with one HIV family by supporting the family to run a small business (grocery selling). Doing this empowers, encourages, and motivates the family to overcome their struggles in life and lead their child to a brighter future. Moreover, we want to educate the society about HIV and break down discrimination. To support this family, SSF had provided the family through psychological consultation for living in society, health care, and small business (grocery selling). We had provided a capital amounting to 315 USD (1323500R) for purchasing goods and fees to build the store. Once this family could get the business running, they could get the profit of at least 2.5 USD a day. Through this business, the family could have enough food, could send the children to school and the family situation would get better compared to before when they had no career.

• Demo Family : Amounting 30 households in Kraing Rhong community that SSF has helped so far. We found that a few families have worked very hard and are very committed in their home gardens since they first started, especially one family named Aek Rin. He is very committed in working and he is keen to lead his neighborhood to do as he does. He thought that it is better to have a home garden for the family’s daily consumption like vegetable, herbs, chilies etc, saw like that ssf has proposed him to be demo family in his community. To encourage his family to do that, SSF Livelihood staff has fully worked out and provide new technical advice in growing vegetables with his family and to make his works effective and provide more impact to the other villagers, we had provided a water tank to store water (3m*1.5m*1m size = 50USD). This would be supported by his growing for a full year.

After getting the tank, he could grow vegetables consistently and make big profit of 2.5-5USD per day. If compared to previously, he could only get the profit from his home garden for only 2 USD/day. Coming up with his activities would have big effects to his community. Bot Korm, 34 years old with 2 household members said: he observed that Aek Rin’s family (Demo family) could earn a lot of money and have enough vegetables for his family. So it is better for him to go to work in the farm from now. I started to make the home garden for my family also, and other man Chanthan 28, said his family have home gardens have enough food and don’t necessary spending wash to purchase vegetable any more like before.

• Home Garden: To increase food production and health improvement in the Kraing Rhong community. They were encouraged to develop organic home gardens. To do so, SSF Livelihood staff has conducted training about techniques on growing vegetables and vegetable distribution to the families who are committed to growing under SSF’s conditions such as growing a home garden, fencing to surround the house and garden, preparing the soil, how to set rang upon the season, making the compost and collection of manure. SSF Livelihood staff provided technical advice and monitoring. Many residents in Kraing Rhong community said that: prior to this, their community has no home garden, and they also spent a lot for daily vegetable consumption, at least 3000R/day Van Choun said. Right now after get the training and advice, they could see the real advantage of organic home garden from the Demo family. The whole community was very interested on home garden and they had to build the home garden all together along their houses.

• Jar training and distribution: Kriang Rhong community is the community that SSF had supported so far. To help those villagers who have no water source for daily consumption last year, our team has supported one pump well. On the other hand, we found that the community still has problems of having no containers to store water to use in their organic home garden. So, during the dry season they were forced to give up their home gardens. Seeing their difficulty, we had promised to provide the water container to the residents, but our team had to first consider this case very deeply and we decided that we would like to train them on how to build their own water container instead of providing it to them directly. By doing so, they can get the water container and learn the skill too. They could use this skill for making money for their family’s livelihood as well. So, that is why in early March 2010, SSF has provided the water container-construction training to the villagers in the Kraing Rhong community. It went on from the 5th March 2010 to 14th march 2010. The training has been successful in training three trainees ( Not Vanak, Yem Thoch, and Mom Samath). This has affirmed that they could be building these jars independently and more than this, they could build water containers to distribute them to their community.

After the villagers have obtained the water containers, they can use them in their home garden, daily consumption, shower, and vegetable growing all through the dry season. More than this, we could cut down many problems like women’s health, cancer, and other diseases that affect women or girls, Chab Him (village chief) said.

• Rice Bank Initiative: 28 out of the 30 families of the Kraing Rhong community has rice deficiency. According to the community, the situation of almost all of the households are faced with insufficient rice to eat, most of them lack rice for 5- 8month a year. They also purchase and borrow a lot of rice or money from the neighborhood and other local lenders for survival. So their living was under serious debt. They have to work for a whole day to settle the debt alone and other families also fell in to loan shark’s grip due to ignorance. They forced their household members to work in garment factories and as cleaners. Most of the people effected were adults and children. To break down the problems of loan shark debt, exploited labor and other debts, SSF has initiated to set up the rice bank in the community for all households to save rice together and available for loan whenever they have no rice to eat. This would help the villagers escape the vulnerable position faced with rice loan shark and labor exploits. For support of the rice bank, SSF has provided the first capital of 200USD to purchase the rice. To consolidate with the community’s capital, it would mean 50% of the money comes from SSF and 50% from the community. Right now, the Kraing Rhong Rice Bank have the rice capital of 1200Kg.

• Self Help Group (SHG) initiative: This is to increase the income for families and communities and to cut out the debt from loan shark in the society, especially in the Kraing Rhong community where this always happens. We had initiated the community to create the Self Help Group. With the explanation and encouragement of SSF, all of the households in the community have joined this group and right now, this group has a capital of almost 200 USD. Other hand the group has bylaw by them self after community has get more training about bylaw from SSF. After the community has their own Self Help Group, all the members were efficient in accomplishing tasks or if someone suffers from serious illness, they could loan the money from their Group very easily.

• Chicken Raising: To increase the livestock for each household and the community’s economic status, SSF encouraged families to rear chickens, ducks and pigs. Our team has assisted the villagers in rearing chicken by providing know-how on raising, techniques in mixing organic feed and natural medicine. Due to successful amounts of raising chickens SSF had assisted a 28 year old, Vanak Nout who had wanted to rear chickens. SSF has provided the much needed education of helpful techniques on raising his farm. He was taught on how to grow his own vegetables like morning glory and cabbage, and use them to mix with market chicken feed, fish pellets and rice husk. As he began to feed his chickens with this mix, not only could he save on money spent on buying chicken feed from the market, but also his chickens grew healthier and had higher survival rate. In case the chickens fell ill, SSF also taught Vannak Nout to make all-natural medicines, which costs a lot less and works more effectively than store-bought chemicals. Now his chickens can grow up to 1.2 to 1.5kg. His family could earn a profit from the chickens of 25 USD-35USD at one time and this equals to fetching higher prices in the market. If compared to before, where his chicken growing rate is slow, constantly affected by sickness, and high lost rate; right now, his chickens are growing very well and he could get more profit making it unnecessary to work outside anymore. Furthermore, his family has enough food and his child could go to school, he said.

• Duck Raising: Apart from raising chickens, we also encouraged the community to raise ducks also. Some people do not have interest on raising duck but certainly, ducks could also be advantageous to family trough eggs and meat as well fetching a better price on the market. For instance, Korn Chear 58, widow said that right now, she is raising an amount of 40 ducks. The ducks are able to make her family have an existent living and have adequate food (rice). When she gets an illness, she could take the revenue from duck raising to pay for treatment. But if there are no ducks, she has to borrow some money from the neighborhood and she said that ducks are the life of her family’s living. Without it, her family will be in hunger again. Beforehand, her livelihood was very difficult- inadequate food and money to pay for treatment for illness; she had to do serious work like climbing the trees to gather leaves, finding crabs, fish and planting rice. Although she does a lot but the profit was limited for her livelihood. If she doesn’t do this for a day, she would have nothing for her stomach and her previous raising efforts of a few ducks ( 4-5) to generate income for her family has no advantage. She had to spend 7-8 months to harvest (sell duck) and each time, she could sell to get a profit of USD 15-20 only. The ducks often died a lot from sickness. And, she had no plans or savings or means to make her money grow. Solely, she only relied on the profit of her ducks, if any is available. But when SSF arrived at her village, her family changed a lot.

• Pig Raising: Of all the livestock that is common here, pigs seemed to garner a lot of interest from local farmers. Therefore, SSF provided these families with pigs and 3 families had extra capital to run a pig-raising business. In addition to that, SSF also assists the villagers by giving them the proper support and technical coaching by teaching them various important techniques used to raise pigs.

• Ceramic water filter distribution: Currently, 1.1 billion people worldwide lack safe drinking water and 2.6 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. Currently only 33 percent of rural and 62 percent of urban Cambodians have access to these two essentials. Some 1.8 million children die each year as a result of diarrhea – a rate of 4,900 per day. Together, unclean water and poor sanitation are the world's second leading cause of death among children. This is especially true in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. Due to common situations like that, SSF has provided ceramic water filters to the Kraing Rhong community in Somrong Tong district, Kampong Spue province to cut out the diarrhea problem. Once the Kriang Rhong residents got the water filters, they could easily use the water and not spend a lot of time boiling it as before. The most effective affect of water filters for the residents is that they have no diarrhea, particularly for the children.

• Microloan Program: to support the livelihood of the families to have enough food and have better living conditions, we have been studying very deeply in this case to find out what the family strong points are, and we will conduct the family to strengthen the family capacity by SSF’s provision of small amounts of microloan such as money and vegetable seeds to the villagers to run the business. In return, we take the small interest rate of 10% per year. The Somart Sem family have no land for living and work, therefore, this family has got a loan from us to purchase the land and to run the fish selling business. Right now this family have land, and business also, and the family could manage to repay back every month to us ( 12USD/month). Additionally, the Sophon Hauy family is a very successful family that has come up to us for help in running her sweet business. Her business is running very well and she could be get a profit of at least 5-10USD per day. This career had made her family situation to be better-she could purchase a lot of rice, a fan, rent a house and a TV for the family. Previously, her family has no career and no income as well as insufficient food. But after SSF has come to know about her family and has supported the family by providing the capital to run her business, her family’s life has changed.

• Sanitation Toilet Project: To improve the sanitation in the community and to break down the problem from poor sanitation such as diarrhea disease and cancer, SSF has initiated the Kraing Rhong community to build the toilets along their houses. SSF provided some materials to build them like cement, sand, and ring wells while the community had to provide items and labor for the construction such as leaves, bamboos, sticks, wires, labor and anything that they could use from their community. In total SSF spent 30 USD per family and we provided toilets for 27 households. In a month, 27 toilets were finished. The community was very happy and their consolidarity of helping eachother in the process of toilet construction has helped to increase the fast completion rate. Now, they have toilets all along their houses that could use very safely. They could also take showers in the toilet properly, benefitting women and girls especially. This is unlike before, where they have go to the forest and ponds to take their showers or wells that are far away from the house.

• Family Assessment: To effectively run the Livelihood Programme, we had to execute family assessments first before we start to help a family. By doing this, we could gather all information from the family and it makes it easy to analyze the family data to make the best household planning for family.

4. Other Activities

A part from project works, Livelihood Coordinator had participated with villagers in road fixing in the village, to make traveling comfortable.

5. Major Challenges

- Although the HIV family’s business collapsed, we still have to find ways to help and encourage the family to running the business again.

- To find the trainer in training the community on building water containers is difficult because in Kampong Spue Province, there are not many water container constructors and the fee for training is expensive. But we still managed to find the best way and best trainer to do this. The trainer could train the trainees in 8days and after that; they could build the water container by themselves.

- To inspire community to make the rice banks. It is difficult to some of the villagers because they said that they have a little rice to eat have no way to contribute rice to be saved in the bank, and there were others who always have contrasting ideas to our concept despite having meetings with all of the villagers about rice bank creation. To show them more about the advantages and some of the poorest families, that have no rice to save for the first time, SSF supported 50% (200USD to purchase rice) while the rest were by the community and each family had to save about 20kilograms of rice. Now, the rice bank has a capital of 1200Kg.

- To improve the sanitation in community such as toilet building took a long time because the kind of soil that the community was digging was a hard type of soil. And, due to rainy days, the process was constantly delayed but through encouragement and support, the project was completed, albeit being behind schedule by a few days.

6, Lessons Learned

- To make me understand and know how to write the memorandum in purchasing some things which cost above $ 100

- The villager still wanted to get the jar but did not due to spending money for the training.

- Understand attitude of villagers in solidarity works and sharing for the general advantage of a whole community.

- To know the attitude of the owners of construction shops when asking them to make quotations.

- To know about making negotiations with the shop owner in purchasing goods

- It is not to easy to make an assessment form. Simon and I had spent at least three day to finish the assessment form and agreement form.

- To plainly about to set up household plan (don’t understand)

7, Future Plan

- Keep well-informing or communicating with local authorities about the project progressive
- Working with community representative to improve well's fence, home garden and their yards
- Digging creek irrigation system connecting from well crossing the village entirely

- Monitor and inspire learned families to produce compost, organic and natural passion after learning

- Facilitate monthly meeting at community level as well as guiding group preventatives to lead the meeting by themselves

- Providing additional loan to improve home-based business healthy or expansion
- Working with demo families to transfer their knowledge and experience to other families
- Strengthening capacity of demo families and other families that benefit through
- Monitoring processes/visit/follow up and evaluation of supported families
- Encouraging those target families to practice their planning
- Study impact of household planning and budgeting
- Working with community representatives to plan a child club in community
- Selecting few community members to attend vetted course
- To begin fundraising for launching child club in 2011
- Working with community representatives and their members to prepare 2011 plan
- Teaching those community representatives about proposal development and submission
- Publications and dissemination

Date: 07-July-2010

Made in Kampong Speu Province

Approved By: Uon Vichetr, Executive Director Written By: Pholla Kang, LPC

Success Chicken Rearing of Vannak Nout Family

Everyone knows the importance of water and how it is critical for survival. Twenty-seven year old Vannak Nout knows well enough just how significant the availability of clean water can be for his family. Before SSF provided his village a water pump and large water jars to store water, he and the rest of the villagers had to make several trips a day just to get to the nearest source of water, a pond that was at least a kilometer away. No doubt, a single pond was hardly sufficient for the 30 families in the village and their livestock, let alone enough to begin any sort of plantation. The numerous trips a day also occupy so much of their time that they find days too short to earn enough income. On top of all that, the water from the pond was not always clean and this resulted to frequent diarrhea and other illnesses related to poor sanitation.
For about ten years, Vannak Nout worked as a constructor earning 10,000 Riels (US$2.5) a day but because he had to travel far to get to work, most of his earnings had to be spent on transportation. He also reared two chickens and had hoped that they would bring some extra income, but because of inconsistent feeding and lack of knowledge on rearing, his chickens kept perishing before he could expand his brood and they only brought in around US$10-15 in the span of four months. And there were times for as long as 3 to 5 months there was no sale at all. Having barely enough to get by, they were regularly starving and had to deal with days of diarrhea. Vannak Nout knew that this was not the way he wanted his family to live. And so, when SSF dropped in to offer help and advice to the villagers, Vannak Nout was among the first to jump at the opportunity.
After SSF helped the village to build their first water pump, getting water was not a problem anymore. Additionally, SSF educated the villagers the importance of hygiene, and provided them with water filters. With this, Vannak Nout and his family no longer had to worry about falling ill from the water they consumed. Along with the rest of the village, he was advised to start growing a small plantation at home as water had become easily accessible.
Since Vannak Nout had wanted to rear chickens, SSF provided the much needed education of helpful techniques on raising his farm. He was taught how to grow his own vegetables like morning glory and cabbage, and use them to mix with market chicken feed, fish pellets and rice husk. As he began to feed his chickens this mix, not only could he save on money spent on buying chicken feed from the market, but also his chickens grew healthier and had higher survival rate. In case the chickens fell ill, SSF also taught Vannak Nout to make all-natural medicines, which costs a lot less and works more effectively than store-bought chemicals. Now his chickens can grow up to 1.2 to 1.5kg, and this equals to fetching higher prices in the market.
Within a year since SSF helped him kick-start his business, he has expanded his farm from two to thirty chickens and earns about US$50 in two months. This allows him to support his six year old son to go to school, which he finds especially important as he believes that education can get his son much better prospects in life. In time, he aims to raise as many as 50 to 100 chickens so that he can make US$70-80 every two months. Vannak Nout is glad to be able to work at home as he is also able to look after his wife and son and spend more time with them. He is grateful to SSF for showing him the path towards the kind of life he has always dreamed of, a life with hope.

Success in raising duck of Korn Chear family

Cambodia the one country depending on agriculture fields, 80 % of Cambodia people are farmer, away of the agriculture villager all way raising chickens, duck , pigs, … and cow to extension income for livelihood. For instance:
Korn Chear 58, widow with 3 sons, live in Kampong Speu province Cambodia, her husband was died from her for many years ago. After Korn family has acknowledge some technique in agriculture like how to raising duck, natural medical and how to mix the feed (rick husk, less rice and sugar palm mix together) she observed that duck are grow up quick, healthy and no died by sickness and her raising are very well in the village. Jus t 4-5 month from the first time the duck could be selling at less 25 USD and after she could be selling in monthly by easily: she said with positive face.
She added that: right now she raising amount 40 ducks, the duck able make her family have existence living, have adequate food (rice), when she get he illness she could take the revenue from duck raising to pay of treatment but if no duck she have to borrow some money from neighborhood and she almost said duck is the life of her family living if no it her living will be stay in hunger again.
Beforehand her livelihood very difficult, inadequate food and money to pay for treatment when illness, she have to do serious work like clam the tree gather the leaf, find crabs, fish and planting rice for stomach, although she does a lot but the profit still limited for livelihood, if she doesn’t do a day so that time she no some thing for stomach, and she has raising a few duck ( 4-5) to generate income for her family but her raise no advantage she have to spend 7-8 month just could harvest ( sell duck) and one time she could sell get profit 15-20 only and the duck often died a lot from sickness, in totally her raising just kid raising. So the profit earn from duck she couldn’t afford her living. But when SSF arrived her village, her family are change a lot of, before do a lot works for rice but right now just raising duck and other works a little could have enough food for family.
Future she still to run this raising because think that duck is the life of her family living, if no duck her family will be stay in hunger again and other hand i too older so could do any thing than raising duck, she said.

Weekly Report 21/May/2010

REPORT 21/MAy/2010
LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMME COORDINATOR

1/Introduction
SSF Foundation is a nonreligious, non-political, and independent humanitarian organization devoted to ending human trafficking and helping poor children and families gain economic independence in impoverished communities. SSF was founded in 2006 and officially recognized by the national government of the Kingdom of Cambodia as a non-profit organization in 2007. SSF has special one program that have strong goal and strength strategy is the Livelihood program that this program will be assist the poor and poorest people to have better living. Other hand this program has assisted many family in Somrong Tong district amount a hundreds family
2/Major Accomplishment
- Communicated with construction owner shops to purchase the material to build the toilet project in Kraing Rhong community
- Encourage and Participated and digging hole and placing ring well with Kraing Rhong community
- Help family HIV (Kong Thouck) digging hole for building toilet
- 27 household digging hole for build the toilet already
- 16 household had been placing ring well
- To visit three family to write the success story and feature story
- Two Success story wrote ( Rin Aek and Nout Vannak family)
- 46 ring well had been provided to 15 household to placing in the hole
- 5 family which has drop out of home garden are encouraged and they started make the home garden again and better than before
- Communicate with commune leader to get the authorization to participate the annual meeting in commune in 26 of month.
- Studying deeply with Kheav Savy debt ( she live in debt amount 720000R)
- Go to Svakrvan police station to communicate police chief for authorization to vist street life
3/ Major Challenge
- We have some of challenge like digging hole to build the toilet of community by the soil are hardly soil most of household has spend to dig for long time but we still to encourage and participate with them to make the relative and truth full to out team
- Difficult with the communicate with owner construction shop to purchase the material to build the toilet by they have to bring all the material to out community first and then we will be pay cash but they not believe to me so I have to spend more time to negotiation and let the owner shop to have a phone with director as the proof in this case.
4/Lesson Learn

- Know about to make negotiation with the owner shop in purchase goods
5/Issue not address

- There are no issue not address
6/Future Plan

- Finish the toilet project in placing ring well in the hole and started the build the complete toilet
- Encourage the home garden of community to develop to be better than before
- Solve problem of Rin Aek family in deficiency iron of his morning glory
- Help placing ring well to Kong Thouck family and follow up her grocer selling
- Discuss out abut the jar enterprise with the three trainee to plainly about the budget of to do so
- Participate with the annual the meeting with commune on the 26th of month
- Write feature story and success story
- Discuss out of SHG bylaw with the leader community

6.1Budget Plan
- pay to material in toilet project 632 USD


Date: 21-May-2010
Made in Kampong Speu Province
Approved By: Uon Vichetr, Executive Director Write By: Pholla Kang, LPC

Success with water tank of Rin Aek family

Rin Aek family with seven children is one among other families within this village that they began their home-grown garden since the well was established. This family has been selected to be demo family in community under encouraging and supporting from SSF Foundation. Our team had supported this family like agriculture technique, capital to build the water tank (1.5m x 3m x 1m ) Rin could grow vegetable every month very well with his water tank, although have only one pump well in his community.
His family could be earn the profit from growing vegetable amount 2.5-5 USD per day by his wife take vegetable to self by her self at the market (Kampong Speu Province) that works has bring his family have better living, sufficient vegetable for daily consumption by don’t need to spend on vegetable or something and his child could go to school with some money pocket “he said with smiling face and acknowledge to SSF”.
He added that previously his family couldn’t grow vegetable regular in the dry season he could grow some months and he could be earn some profit just 2 USD per day only, sometime nothing. So his family living in difficult condition, deficient daily food for eating and in his growing he have to gather water at less 100-200 container per day to irrigate vegetable, so he have to do weighty works every day for stomach and his wife always try to work hard together but the family living still in deficient.
In the future Rin still carry on his growing, he keen to expand growing and raising fish in the water tank, chickens as well. He hope that if he could get more knowledge about to do so and capital to expand water tank, so his family will be more better and could be let his community to follow.

Sucess balloon business of Houk Sophea family

Houk Sophea 32, Husband Em Preoung 36 disable person with 4 children (2 sons and 2 daughters) lives in Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia. Previously her family is very poor in slum blog Kampong Speu, her family living depend on gather the lotus baby, morning glory, wild leaf and something to sell at the market for purchase food, rice, water, electric, and school fee for child. Spending for all couldn’t afford, so that it is very difficult most of time her family no foods to eat and child couldn’t go to school regular because they are fully participated with their parents to collect recycling and begging.
Raising family is the load of husband but for her family she responsible a hold family, because her husband is disable person loose his legs during Pol Pot regime by mine accident so he couldn’t responsible to the family and unfortunately her husband (Em Preoung) was trafficked by his friend to beggar in Malaysia several years before he was able to release himself. He was arrested my Thai police before they repatriated him to Cambodia while he escaped from the Malaysia. Em stressed his difficulty while he lived and worked as beggar in Malaysia. All money he begged his friend took at all and the trafficker have promised to give some to his family in Cambodia but when he returned back he found that there is no any penny was received by his wife.
Her husband (Em Preoung) has skills on making balloon but he couldn’t begin this business without someone supports him a loan but when ssf had knew her family we had provided the capital mount 50 USD to her husband to run business. So cheerful his business selling balloon have been run for many money that he could be get the profit 2.5 – 4 USD per day and his wife still gather the lotus baby, morning glory, and something could get some profit amount 2-3 USD per day. This business let all the kids go to school, food enough to eat than before but she said that her family still difficult because her family have no land surely to live, the land that this family live presently are all way get threatening to confiscate for authority local, so that why she hope if she have land for her house it will be better in the future.

Initative Jar Enterprise

SSF foundation had opened the best opportunity to beneficiary is Jar training, we had three trainee to enroll course, they are Nout Vannak, Yeam Thoch, and Kol Somnang. They are happy to gain the new knowledge and they are successful in learning this course and they could be produce the jar distributed to their community under effort material from ssf foundation. more than ssf initiative to create the jar enterprise, so that why i had discuss out with the three trainee to do so.

Activities Placing Ring Well

On the 14th May 2010 we had take the ring well distribute to community who had digging hole completely to place ring well in the hole.

Food Security Project

Cambodia is a least-developed, low-income food deficit country emerging from decades of civil conflict and economic stagnation. According to the new international poverty line set by World Bank – US$1.25-a-day, 42 percent of Cambodians live in extreme poverty.
SSF has been assisted poorest and the most vulnerable people in Kampong Spue, one among three poorest province, in reducing hunger and under nutrition we had establish successful vegetable gardens at the household that could produce fresh vegetables for daily consumption and that excess is sold as a cash crop.

Toilet Sanitation Project

Kampong spue Province is the poor in Cambodia, the living of inhabitant was quite un sanitation, insufficient water consumption…. So that why SSF Foundation has assist one District is Somrong Tong district, Kampong spue. We had educate the community to be self-develop, Human right, exploitation, Abuse, Child labor, ... more than this we had provide the best more opportunity to community that we works with like open the jar training, Initiative SHG, Rice bank, Home gardens, Raising poultry, and provide the addition loan to community expand the business at home. Now day we had Toilet program which will be distribute to community to a whole village amount 26 family, I had encourage and participate with villager to digging the hole for building toilet and would like to speed up this program to finish on May 2010.

Home Garden

Kheav savy window with 11child, live Somrong Tong District, Kapong Speu Province, her family is the poorest family in village, have no anything. Previously at her house doesn’t do anything, but after we assist to build the home garden in front of the house, now house become green, at her garden growing morning glory, cucumber, gourd and herbs chilly. Prior to my house never growing anything a chilly, or something for daily consumption, she said in smiling face.

Sex Abuse Case

Now day in Cambodia society there are many sex abuse case that always happens, all the case always happens in the rural area, particularly Kampong Spue Province, always happened many case every year. Accurately in Kong Piesy District happened to Vet Mant Family.

Vet Mant 45 widow, with five household member’s one youngest daughter, live in Tram Kong Village, Stock Commune, and Kong Peisy District. The Vet Family is the poor family in village, her husband was many year ago, leave the family live in struggling to subsistence, Vet raise her child by grocery selling at home and do agriculture as well.

So sympathy of her family, the youngest daughter ( Chab Srey Ven 12 ) has been attempted to rap several time by the adult boy18.

Participated Community Meeting

On 5 May 2010 i had participated with annual community meeting in Kraing Rhong village, Kampong Speu Province, in the meeting i had discuss with the community about toilet sanitation, Home gardens and Household Planning the villager has participate amount 30 household although have raining by happily in get the new idea in household planing, and to home gardens along the house.

Works Today

Today in the morning i had to do the quotation for purchasing toilet sanitation, and in the evening i had go to interview the family to do family household planning. other hand in the a long way cover with raining.

Field Works

i had a field works every in evening, today i had propose a adult to raising chickens at his home, and intend to provide the technique for raising to him. i had interview him to have information, he would like to raise or not and what could that he could to do in this case and what he need my team work to help. he would like to raising chickens in five hens or ten.

Traveling

Today i had bring the volunteer SSF to visit the poor and poorest in the Kampong Speu province. we had to visit two village the SSF work with.

Demo Family

Rin Aek family is one among other families within this village that they began their home-grown garden since the well was established. They adopt SSF consequent growing method to grow which is possible harvest consequently. Rin woke up early morning to water his garden before going to the rice field and he backs home earlier than other household members every day as he needs to water it again for the evening session even though they are too busy with their rice field during the months of December to February as it is harvest time in Cambodia. Rin and at least other 10 families within the village weren’t giving up gardens this harvest season. Rin illustrates us the important position of his garden as it can produce enough vegetable supplying to his family needs as well as they can sell out to the market as well.

Test technique growing water (Kampong Speu)

Kampong Speu is the poorest province in Cambodia, no water source for daily consumption in some region, like Somrong Tong district so dry, that why i had bring the technique growing saving water to test with one family (En sockly family) this family is so poor family and big family 6 household members and the major work is clam the palm tree. so due to this family and soil situation hard to growing the crops in dry season , i had to find the new technique growing in saving water.

Khmer New Year Celebrating

On the 11 April 2010 at SSF Foundation has celebrated the Khmer New Year , which has a lot of child come from village to participated play many game eating a lot food and dancing with smiling face together.

Build the water tank for demo family

In Kraing Rhong village we had selected one family to be the demo family in the village and we had provided the water tank to those family for growing vegetable and other consumption.

The jar training in Kraing Rhong Village

Kraing Rherong village is the village that SSF Foundation has supported due to those village have no water source for daily consumption last year our team has supported one pump well, other hand the community has requested to our team to provide the water jar. we had considered on this case deeply and we decided that we would like to train them how to build the jar in stead of the providing jar directly if we do like that we could get two advantage for them they can get the jar and they can take those skill to works for earn money. so now this idea are processing very well, we get the three trainee that willing to learn how to build the jar, they are so happy in the learning, this idea could be make the solidarity in community also.

PROGRESS REPORT ( First time that i wrote)

Progress Report Project in Krang Rhong Village

Livelihood Programme

Date: 18 March 2010

To: Vichetr Uon Executive Director

From: Pholla Kang

Project name: Livelihood Programme (Processing of jar building and tank of demo family)

Introduction: SSF Foundation is a nonreligious, non-political, and independent humanitarian organization devoted to ending human trafficking and helping poor children and families gain economic independence in impoverished communities.The SSF has special one programwith strong goals and strong strategy called the Livelihood program this program will be of assistance the poor and poorest people to give them better living. SSF has also worked closely with beneficiary in the Somrong district. In early March / 2010 SSF opened one jar training building for the villagers in Kraing Rhong village and has provided the materials for to make tank for the demo family (Aek Ren) in this village.

Project Description: SSF we believe in a proactive and innovative approach to protecting children from all forms of violence, exploitation, abuse and discrimination. As such, it is our mission to achieve lasting improvements for children living in poverty in Cambodia's poorest communities, through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives. We do this through: enabling deprived children, their families and their communities to meet their basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; inspiring deprived children, their families and their communities to socially and economically empower themselves to be agents of change in their own lives and for a more equitable world; and, preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against children- including commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labor and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage.

Progress Summary

1/ jar building: since early march 2010 SSF has provided the jar training to villagers in the Kraing Rhong community from the 5^th march 2010 to the 14^th march 2010 the training has been successful in training three trainee ( Not Vanak, Yem Thoch, and Mom Samath) has affirmed that they could be buildable without trainer. During training the community and trainee show great solidarity and are happy to learn. we achieved building 8 jars and after the training finished the trainees have continued to build jars for improve their skills. Until now they could only build amount 12 jars, to build more than this we had set up a new mold to speed up their works because to build one jar we spend one day so setting up a new mold is faster. The advantage of jar training is not only that the trainee has the knowledge and skills but that they can use the skill to work for their life in the future, also we are stronger knowing more about the attitude of the villagers when it works in solidarity.

2/ Building the tank of demo family: in Kraing Rhong community our team has selected one family to be the demo family (Aek Ren) and we had a program to encourage this family by providing the tank for water storage to use in irrigation. We studied this case more before we start to provide the until on 04^th march 2010 when we purchased material to build the jars including material to build the tank. We started to build the tank from 07^th march 2010 until now, this task is mostly finish.

Problem Encountered:

Before this program started we had encountered some problem with the construction shops that we had selected when we went to purchase the material they didn’t open the shop so we had to change to another shop immediately.

We were so upset with the outsource trainer who had promised to teach the village but didn’t arrived on time so the training has delayed for one day and we had to contact to another outsource trainer in Bach Chan market who charged a higher fee.

On the top this problems were still occuring in the program when we had a trainer and material enough as the mold that we had bought already the outsource trainer couldn’t use so we had to buy a new mold immediately through the outsource trainer.

Changes in Requirements: in this program it has not been necessary make changes in the schedule because this program was off schedule.

Overall Assessment of the Program:

- In the overall project of jar building we have found that are going well

- The tank building with the demo family is going well also

Date: 18-Mar-2010

Made in Kampong Speu Province

Approved By: Uon Vichetr, Executive Director Write By: Pholla Kang, LPC

Growing in bag for reduce water using and where have no land to grow

growing vegetable are very necessary for livelihood for farmer but if have a little land and no water to use in growing, how could we growing. Here is the method that i had follow up for other country which no enough land and water for using in growing.

Providing the new technique save water in growing vegetable

As we know that in Cambodia country is the country depend on agriculture file but now the climate change hight level event the humanity difficult to survival and plant also so the farmer are very difficult to growing the crops and lack of water to use in irrigation specially in Kampong Speu province is no water enough to use in agriculture daily consumption as well. due to this reason i we had to find the new technique save water in growing vegetable. This idea we had provide the family live Ampel Phhame village, Kompong spue that family are very poor in the village and the big family live with 11 household member and widow women leader. I had propose this family to set up the garden with our technique.

Chatting with my nephew

In my relax time i had gone to my hometown in Takeo province on 7 March 2010 i had have the lunch time with my nephew it is so happy that my nephew has many words speak with me and he show his concept in the future am very happy, because my nephew he so young but he have the purpose for his life. The so happy in those time my cousin sister she had pass the strong student get number five hold Takeo province it is great thing for me. Other had i had joint my friend 's wedding as well. Here is video activity of my nephew.

INITIATIVE OF SHG WITH MY FRIEND

For many time i and nearly all my friend never think about to save the money and think about how could to achieve our goal but now i and my friend [Yeng ] has an idea to set the team SHG together. more than this we would to like to invite person the would like it in this idea and welcome to all the person that have the good idea to make this concept to be perfect. I and my friend[welcome for the generous person that would like to support this idea and wait for all the person that would like to joint with us.

My favorite pet

In my brother's house i have a favorite dog it is call Srey Pic.

Video of child in SSF Foundation (play game)

This video was take by me during the children play game after they get training form Mis Sinoun(Child Protection Coordinator) about social lesson.

The Technique Manage Our Time

1. Always define your objectives as clearly as possible.
Do you find you are not doing what you want because your goals have not been set. One of the factors which mark out successful people is their ability to work out what they want to achieve and have written goals which they can review them constantly. Your long term goals should impact on your daily activities and be included on your "to do" list. Without a goal or objective people tend to just drift personally and professionally

2. Analyse your use of time.
Are you spending enough time on the projects which although may not be urgent now are the things you need to do to develop yourself or your career. If you are constantly asking yourself "What is the most important use of my time, right now?" it will help you to focus on 'important tasks' and stop reacting to tasks which seem urgent (or pleasant to do) but carry no importance towards your goals.

3. Have a plan.
How can you achieve your goals without a plan. Most people know what they want but have no plan to achieve it except by sheer hard work. Your yearly plan should be reviewed daily and reset as your achievements are met. Successful people make lists constantly. It enables them to stay on top of priorities and enable them to remain flexible to changing priorities. This should be done for both personal and business goals.

4. Action plan analysis.
Problems will always occur, the value of a good plan is to identify them early and seek out solutions. Good time management enables you to measure the progress towards your goals because "What you can measure, you can control". Always try to be proactive.

Time management (or self management) is not a hard subject to understand, but unless you are committed to build time management techniques into your daily routine you'll only achieve partial (or no) results and then make comments such as "I tried time management once and it doesn't work for me". The lesson to learn is that the more time we spend planning our time and activities the more time we will have for those activities. By setting goals and eliminating time wasters and doing this everyday you may find you will have extra time in the week to spend on those people and activities most important to you.

Search and Prepare by Pholla Kang

Livelihood Program Coordinator