By Adelaide Lerendu | Communication Coordinator
Dear all suporters,
Thanks to your numerous donations we finally reached the $10,000 and funded our project "Sustainable lives for 375 women in rural Cambodia"! This is a huge success for us for our organization and we feel grateful for all the help you provided to us! During the last 2 years we have worked on this project to help our beneficiaries in Northeast Cambodia and this work would have been vain without your involvement.
Through this project, we coordinated sustainable development activities such as trainings on livelihood activities and savings, we helped our beneficiaries to develop businesses and to strengthen their capacities. The installation of bio-digesters allowed the villagers to improve their situation and to facilitate their lives.
Ms. Seam Hun tells the impact that the project had on her life and her village: "with the CRDT project we now have access to clean water in each house of the village, so we have more time to dedicate to other tasks and we don't water time to pick up the water from the river. Now, it is also easier to raise livestock and grow vegetable, since the water is directly in our land. But I think the most important positive impact is the fact that we have a better health, less diseases, now that we don't drink the water from the river anymore. There is a filter in the water system so our water is clean and healthy now!". Ms. Hun is now a Community-Based-Eco-Tourism: she hosts tourists sent there by CRDTours to discover the real Cambodian life. It provides her an extra income and when students groups are coming they often help the villagers to implement some of their projects (construction of a fence, a raincollector, ...).
Today we launch a new project, "Water for Health in Pu Char Village". This new project aims to help 70 families living in Pu Char Village by providing 2 water supply systems, sanitation facilities and some trainings to improve the health and home-gardening in this area. 80% of Cambodia's population is rural, of those, only 47% have access to improve drinking water and 31% to sanitation. Pu Char Village is particularly remote and the majority of the inhabitants are poor and vulnerable. Their conditions of poor water access and sanitation are a challenge for both living and agriculture. Agriculture is the main source of income and the lack of water endangered the food security as well as the villagers health. This project proposes to improve water access, as well as the sanitation.
To learn more about our project you can click on the link bellow. This project is new so please share it with those around you. Once again we really need your support to launch this project and attract donations.
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