By Thai San | Managing Director
Dear HHA supporters,
Happy New Year!
Our 2019 annual report has just been released. Please check out HERE.
We would like to share with you a nice success story of Heang, our sewing graduated student.
Heang was born in a big family of eight members. She stopped studying in grade 11 as her parents could not afford her. Then she worked as a housekeeper. At the ages of 21, her parents arranged her to get marry with a man in her village, but she disagreed as she already had a love one (Cambodian culture, some parents arrange marry for their children). Although, she tried to explain her parents that she had a boy friend, but they didn't listen and kept forcing her to get marry. She then decided to live with her boy friend, even though her parents were unhappy. Heang is one of a strong girl in Cambodia who dared to do this.
Living with her husband was extremely a more difficult life as they didn't have much money, but they were happy to live together and started their new life. They both worked as housekeepers. Heang stopped working for a year, after she had child. Two years later, they had another child, so Heang stopped working again to take care her two children. Heang's income lose and their two children caused them more trouble with their financial.
In fact, Heang wanted to learn sewing as she liked it and believed that this skill would allow her to work at home, so she can earn income and take care her children at the same time. Fortunately, one day, through our staff outreach, we met Heang at her small house and asked her if she was interested to learn sewing. Heang decided to join our program with the support from her husband. Heang was very happy to learn sewing, even though she traveled around 30 minutes to study every day, she had never felt tired with a goal of setting up her dream sewing shop at home.
After just three months, through her talent and a great attitude, she was chosen to become our seamstress, making products for us. She was very happy to start earning income to support her family. After completing our 10-month sewing course, Heang was fully confident to set up her dream sewing shop at home in her village. And a few months later, with support from her husband, she could also set up a laundry shop at home. Heang can earn a good income to support her family now, while she also can take care of her children, without worrying about losing income again. We cannot describe how much she is proud of herself now.
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