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Project 1:
This is a multi-purpose project taking place in Pursat Province which involves building water wells, providing health education, and promoting self-help groups and also microcredit.
Project Background:
The Pursat Province in Cambodia is one of the poorer and less developed provinces with recent estimates showing that 45.8% of its residents live below the poverty line. The lack of access to safe water gives people no choice but to consume contaminated water, resulting in the spread of diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis, and polio.
The Pursat Province in Cambodia is one of the poorer and less developed provinces with recent estimates showing that 45.8% of its residents live below the poverty line. The lack of access to safe water gives people no choice but to consume contaminated water, resulting in the spread of diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis, and polio.
Project Description:
HOPE began the provision of water wells to provide safe water and accompanied this with health and sanitation education. In response to the needs of the local community, HOPE has also added a microcredit component to this project that consists of an in-kind credit system in the form of a cow or buffalo bank and self-help group cash loans.
HOPE began the provision of water wells to provide safe water and accompanied this with health and sanitation education. In response to the needs of the local community, HOPE has also added a microcredit component to this project that consists of an in-kind credit system in the form of a cow or buffalo bank and self-help group cash loans.
Project Objectives:
- To provide education in health and sanitation education
- To increase access to cleaner water
- To promote self-help groups
- To provide a cow or buffalo bank
Main Activities in the Project:
- Water use and Health Education linked to Home Gardening
(500 families)
Provision of 100 wells, training on maintenance and hygiene, provision of seeds and tools for gardening enhancing food security and income generation.
- Animal Bank (40 buffalos/cows for 150 families)
Lending of a buffalo or cow to each family for a period of approximately 18 months, giving it enough time to breed and give birth. The family is then allowed to keep the calf at the end of the cycle.
- Credit (cash loans for 160 families)
Money loans through self-help groups, with the necessary training for leaders and bookkeepers, and small business training for individual members.
| Project Summary | Installment of 100 wells, provision of health and sanitation education, and access to microcredit |
| Location | Krorbao and Oromchang (villages), Kravanh District, Pursat Province |
| Duration | 11 months (October 2009 to September 2010) |
| Beneficiaries | See figures above |
| Budget | ¥8,000,000 |
Project 2:
School Construction
Project Description:
A junior high school is being built to guarantee better access to schools for more children in the Kravanh District of Pursat Province which will improve the general level of education and also raise the school attendance rate of the district. This project aims to help children who’s schooling has been stopped short due to a lack of schools in the area and also those who are being forced to live away from their families to attend a distant school.
| Project Summary | Construction of a junior high school to improve level of education and school attendance rate in this rural area. |
| Location | Oromchang (village), Kravanh District, Pursat Province |
| Duration | 7 months (October 2009 to April 2010) |
| Beneficiaries | Approximately 600 students |
| Budget | ¥3,000,000 |