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Micro-farm sneak-peek

25/6/2015

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Our most ambitious project yet, the 0.9 hectare micro-farm is underway. The farm will become our new project base and is an essential part of our programme expansion and long term sustainability.

The first hurdle was to plough and check the farm for land mines - a legacy of the three decades of civil war and unrest Cambodia endured. As one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, Cambodia has the highest per capita number of amputees globally - nearly 40,000 Cambodians have lost limbs, including Ben Toch, a current microfranchisee, who lost a leg after stepping on a mine during the conflict. A further 19,660 Cambodians have been killed by landmines since 1979.

With the land now mine-free, we plan to build twelve new chicken coops to increase the number of chicks we can raise and supply to franchisees. Phirun, our field manager, is in the process of setting up the infrastructure (including connecting power and digging a well for water supply). Meanwhile, board member Dave Champion has been working hard on the farm layout design (see layout plan below).

We've outgrown our current base at World Education School in Chhouk, and we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported the farm set up, which will now make it possible to scale the number of franchisees.

We urgently need your help, so we can help more ultra-poor villagers work their way out of poverty. It's easy and rewarding, click here to 'Fund a family'.

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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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