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A new micro-farm to double incomes & savings of more ultra-poor families

21/8/2014

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Our original chicken coop which is now falling down.
We’re about to embark on a whole new stage in our development! After three years of working on our franchising programme, we’ve outgrown our NGO partner’s small school site. This is where we currently raise one-day-old chicks through their vaccination period for the microfranchisees. We’ve also outgrown our central chicken coop which is starting to fall apart.

So it’s time to develop a micro-farm. The farm will be used to expand our central chicken coop facility so we can increase capacity, test new franchisable concepts and improve production methods (for example recycling the chicken manure). We’ll also raise and sell chickens at the farm to cover operational costs within Cambodia.

We anticipate that a micro-farm will support around 250 families to run their microfranchises. Over time, we plan to replicate this model to other regions in Cambodia and South East Asia.

We’ve now located a perfect piece of land (114m x 42m) for our first micro-farm, which is 2km from our current centre in Chhouk. We plan to build five broiler coops and a base for our project there, as well as dig a well and fence off the property for security, in partnership with local NGO World Education School.


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The new micro-farm land (total area 114 x 42 metres, 2km from Chhouk).
We’re excited about this next phase and we’re inviting you to help us.

To secure the land and pay for infrastructure, we need to raise NZ$12,000 by November 2014.

We’ve already raised 10% ($1,200) of the $12,000 needed by way of a donor who has committed to match, dollar for dollar, the first $1,200 raised. That means for every $1.00 you put in there will be a $2.00 benefit, up to the first $2,400.

We’ve set up a give-a-little zero fees fundraising page - every dollar counts and no contribution is too small. To help us achieve our goal so we can help more ultra-poor people, click here to donate. 

In appreciation,
Gerard and Hana Wakefield
Co-founders

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    We founded Catalyst social enterprise after living in South East Asia and seeing first-hand the daily struggle rural villagers face in meeting their basic needs. 

    Although Cambodia is a fast-developing, dynamic country, 57% of Cambodians still live on less than US$2.00 per day, and 90% of Cambodia's poor live in rural areas which lack even the most basic of infrastructure, a legacy of three decades of civil war and unrest.
     
    After running a small-scale microloan programme in 2009, we found that partipants struggled to pay back even small microloans.

    Abandoning the aid approach we instead spent a lot of time talking to people who earn less than $2.00 per day to find out the help they needed and wanted. 

    In partnership with a local development entrepreneur we developed a locally-led social business to give villagers a competitive advantage.

    We exist to create social impact that is economically and environmentally sustainable.
                                              Gerard & Hana Wakefield

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