Nutritional PD Hearth Program helps improve my grandchild health

Hear our caregiver Mrs. Ry Hon talked about how she got to join with our project CHOICES for Children and helped improve her grandchildren nutrition status:

Pond Progression Report

Pond has been proposed for RC interest group who finish vegetable short course training. This contribution aims to provide massive benefit for any member encountered less water supply for daily use as well as for irrigation system link to agriculture work. However, as we plan to seek for 15 beneficiaries for 15 pond in 2 commune: Tranpang Chorng, SnamPreash. We have found 10 beneficiaries in Trapang Chorng and 5 beneficiaries in SnamPreash. This plan were set out to finish before the end of June 2018. From up to date we have finish 10 ponds in Trapang Chorng commune. The other 5 were on processing and ready to start digging, we hope that it will be complete before the end of this June.

The benefits of permaculture garden

Mr. Khut is 55 years old. He is developing his home gardening after he has joined in the permaculture training in a village supported by the project. After he has made the garden for his own family, he was also able to share to his neighbor the techniques and its benefits who then adopts them and make a garden out of it. 
Please check out the video story below to learn more:

A visit to the mandala garden

Permaculture training has been proposed to conduct in the beginning of July 2018, as the result there are 59 trainee were completely participate and able to conduct and implement at home. From 4 days training the participants were able to learn about the principles, ethic, and how permaculture link to earth as well as the design of different type of gardening.

Mandala garden in Koh Krasang village

The trainees were able to learn the benefits of creating harmony earth and how gardening could help them access safe vegetable and herbs by rehabilitating the soil and created abundance food around their home either use their free land to fill with variety of cash crop and vegetable for food. As the result, most participants from the training have been making their own mandala garden and premium keyhole bed at home for family food security.

Mandala garden with banana inside

Kate from ADRA Australia visited the garden on her planning visit

Kate from ADRA Australia visited the garden on her planning visit

Permaculture Short Course Training

4 days of Permaculture short course training were done with total of 59 trainees from 9 villages in Snam Preash commune. However, within 4 days we have done many activities and lesson learn from both the trainer as well as the trainee. For the final gift for PDC training we have conduct implementing 1 mandala garden and 1 premium keyhole right there at the training venue. All our trainee were glad to join in this training and they’re were commit to make one each of keyhole and mandala garden at their home for family safe food and to improve their kid nutrition through good vegetable and animal raising.

Free ground with grasses before making keyhole bed.

4th Days of training trainee creating keyhole bed

Complete keyhole bed gardening

Complete Mandala Garden in Koh Krasang village, Bakan district, Pursat province.

Changes of behaviors and practices of Cigarette smoking and feeding the children at risk of dietary deficiency.

I`m Lek Sarorn 55 years old married my wife 53 years old. Living 5 with three grandsons (aged 1 months years, 6 months, and 2 years) and because sometimes grandsons` mother went to work at sewing factory and father went to work at private company`s cassava farm.

Before I became a RC member and assistant RC facilitator, I smoked cigarette for 10 years and drank alcohol for 30 years. I had career as farmer with rice planting; grow vegetables and some animal raising. Recently my family is ID poor 2. I never helped house`s works, but just does the man`s task outside of house. I frequent created domestic violent. My family had small amount of income from the farming.

I joined ADRA in 2015 as a male RC member and then became an Assistant RC Facilitator in February 2018. My wife also become as a RC member in year 2015 until now. I learned in RC discussions with topics of hygiene, nutrition, Learning Through Play, social marketing and bookkeeping, home gardening, facilitation skills, smoking cessation program, PD/Hearth program, etc.

My family received a discount voucher for a water tank and was able to purchase one. I learned RIP (Rice Improvement Program), and my wife learned chicken raising from ADRA. Now, I grow vegetables and chicken raising and the income is increasing from these careers. I completely stopped smoking and alcohol drinking for 4 months and I do not need to spend money for it anymore. I stopped domestic violence since I learned LTP in 2016. My health is stronger and I can do harder work. My wife and I learned PD/Hearth and I brought my malnourished grandson 2 years old to join in Hearth sessions and continue feeding at home with regular weight follow-up. Now he is rehabilitated and non longer malnourished.

My family will continue to grow vegetables and chicken raising, and give proper feeding to children as I known and I learned and share these skills to my relatives and to the neighbours when they are interested it.

I appreciate to ADRA team and ADRA`s donor for helping to my family and to my village.

This change is important to my family. We can help and support each other to make families healthy. I decide to continue this change now and in the future. I will encourage my friends to learn from my new habits. 

Stop smoking for healthy family!

Mr. Moeun Pich, aged 56 years old has stopped smoking after he joined in our project group discussion and learned about the harmful affect of tobacco. He now has quit smoking successfully and is healthy and happy within his family. His livelihood is also getting better as instead of spending time smoking, he spend time working!

Mr. Moeun Pich and his family