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.