By UL Socheat | Project Leader
This quarter has been a tiring but exciting period for us. It has been tiring searching for materials (lamps) to repair the bio-digester systems of our beneficiaries but we ended up with nothing to buy due to the unavailability of such lamps on the Cambodian market and decided to postpone the repair until March next year. Alternatively, the project team organized a training course on “Chicken and Pig Raising Adapted to Climate Change” for our beneficiaries in Koh Preah village on 2nd September 2014. This training was conducted to respond to the community need assessed in previous reporting period about the problem of livestock death due to the changing climate.
In Koh Preah village where our Global Giving project site is, the training course was aimed to improve the capacities of farmers in raising chicken and pig within the context of climate change. Twenty two participants (14 women) attended this training. The topics for chicken raising focused on selection of hence and cock for breeding, choosing location for building chicken house, building chicken house, taking care of chicken, chicken vaccination, making organic feed for chicken. The topics of pig raising focused on selection of piglets for breeding, choosing location for building pig house, building pig house, providing pig feed and taking care of pig, and pig vaccination. According to our evaluation, 15 participants have clear understanding and 7 participants have medium understanding of the topics.
Mrs. Vannara, a woman farmer in Koh Preah confronted with livestock death, as we mentioned in a previous report also attended this training. After the training, she felt more confident to continue her livestock raising. She was very interested in the topics of natural vaccine and feed making for chicken and pig. She said “I will start raising chicken and pig again as soon as I can allocate some budget to buy piglets. However, I will not raise them on a large scale yet because I would like to practice the new techniques I learned first and also to avoid a big loss like in the past.”
Up to this quarter, our fund raised from GlobalGiving donors totals USD 1,680.71 but after the implementation of activities, only USD 560 remain. In the next six months we will need to buy materials to repair bio-digesters. On October 15th, donations to our project on GG will be matched at 30%. We would be so grateful if you could donate to us on that day. The matching begins on
October 15th from 9 am to 11:59 pm (time in New York)
or October 15th from 3 pm to October 16th at 6: 00 am (time in Europe)
or October 15th from 8 pm to October 16th at 11 am (time in Cambodia)
Thank you to all our generous donors for your ongoing support. Please remain with us and witness the changes brought by your contribution in our rural subsistence farmers in Cambodia.
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