By UL Socheat | Partnership Manager
Over the last three months, our project has been progressing impressively in both activities and fundraising.
We have successfully fixed the 8 damaged bio-digesters in Koh Preah by replacing the broken spare parts (lamp, gas meter, pipe, and digester) and coached the users in the correct usage and maintenance of the systems. The activities were conducted from 20 to 23 January with active involvement of the households. To promote the sense of ownership, the user households volunteered to contribute USD 300 to the total repair costs of USD 650.
“Now I can use my bio-digester again” said Mr. Voeun a villager. “I would like to thank CRDT and GlobalGiving donors for fixing the systems for me and my neighbors. With the coaching, I realized that the ways I used the system were not correct. However, before no one in this village was sure about the problems of low flam gas and the system failures we encountered. We just listened to people who passed by our village and followed their comments, but they were no experts in this system. With those false comments from time to time, we went completely wrong and the systems were no longer usable.”
February was also a fabulous month for our project fundraising thanks to a couple who got married and decided to donate their gifts in a financial donation to CRDT. Christina and Will from Australia, received USD 5 000 as gifts from their friends and relatives for their wedding. But they decided to donate all to CRDT after visiting our project site two years ago. They were deeply sympathetic to the indigenous people and nature in Mondulkiri Province which need supports on their livelihood improvement and conservation.
In the next two quarters, we will spend the money raised from their wedding to fulfil the couple’s dream. CRDT will support six families in Andong Kraloeung village to run the farm businesses on chicken raising and vegetable growing to supply the food demand of tourists in Gibbon Ecotourism Project. The team will provide training, coaching and follow up the six families to ensure that their businesses run successfully. Upon their success, 5% of their generated income will be contributed to the protection of Seima forest through village patrolling team. Thank you so much Christina and Will for such a wonderful gift, there are no words to express ours and our beneficiaries’ gratitude.
However, to fully fund the current project, we still need to raise USD 2, 213. Could you please help us by donating now to https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/sustainable-lives-for-375-women-in-rural-cambodia/. We deeply thank you in advance. Happy Khmer New Year (13-15 April) from Cambodia and all of us at CRDT.
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