PPG Project in Dong village

Number of Family

There 2 members in this family: Husband (57 years old), and Wife (49 years old)

History / background of the family (incl. financial, social)       

The family has been living in Doung village over 15 years. His wife is a Gynecologist and he is Nurse, but both of them were retied several years ago. This family had depended retirement payroll but it not so enough with family expenses, so they always planting vegetable around their house for support more. Moreover, this family has well at relationship and communication with neighbor and community.

How much land does the family own (total), how many m2 is the garden and how many m3 the pond?

5.000 m2, 300 m2, 715.95 m3

How has the family been impacted by the PPG project: financial, social, food & water security, etc.?

The family has been participated in the Organic Program since 2017. After participated this program, this family was improved such as:

–        Having enough security food and water

–        More well relationship and communication with community

–        Regularly income

–        Had regularly work

–        Improve health condition and living condition

Physical and emotional are improved

Project coordinate: 12.876154, 103.122476
Date:
01. March 2018
Written by:
Rithy Kong (kHA Manager)


Emergence and meaningfulness – PPG (Ponds, Pumps, Gardens) Project

The smallholders in the target area around Battambang/Northern Cambodia are highly threatened by poverty and precarious food insecurity. This is espe- cially true during the dry season. Only 56 % of the families will have enough water, which in turn means that only 6 % of families have enough food to eat all year round.

The daily work of our partner organization Bareebo with the small farmers has also shown that their diet has become very one-sided and unhealthy in contrast to the traditional diet. Deficiency symptoms can be observed especially in children. Often, this is simply due to a lack of knowledge of balanced, nutritious and varied food, and of course the lack of financial resources. In addition, countless chemicals end up in the fields and thus in the food chain.

With sufficient water storage capacity to produce high quality organic products all year round, farmers in the target area would be well positioned to increase their incomes and improve their overall quality of life.

The project targets smallholders living in six villages in the Banan district of Battambang province in northwestern Cambodia. These smallholders account for 85% of the farmers in the target area. On average, they have less than five hectares of land. Of the 1,548 families living in the villages, around 100 families (approx. 550 persons) will benefit directly from the project. 87 percent of these families say they grow vegetables, but only 2 percent of them can sell them on the market during the dry season. The income from their gardens amounts to only 13.86 Euros per year. The average household income per year is 906 Euros.

Together with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and “Water for the World” from Austria, we launched our new major PPG project in May 2016. Therefore, we dedicated the proceeds of the fundriding tour in December 2017 to this project.

We dig up large ponds. They act as water reservoirs for farm animals and guarantee a year-round harvest cycle. The raised topsoil is mostly distributed evenly on the sides and large areas of organic land are created. The farmers are prepared for their new tasks in special training sessions. The surplus organic vegetables are bought by Bareebo at a fair and pre-determined price and sold at the organic market stall in Battambang or directly to the hotels. The surplus generated goes back proportionately to the village coffers, so that the villages become increasingly independent of the profit-oriented banks.

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Details

Status: Project completed
Budget: –
Sponsor: BMZ

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