Cross visit of the chicken raising interest groups to a model agriculture Prod site

Cross visit of the chicken raising interest groups to a model agriculture Prod site

 On June 27, 2018 the Staff of CHOICES for Children project facilitated the trained chicken raising interest groups to a cross learning visit at a model agriculture Prod site in Koh Svay village, Snam Preah commune. The interest groups from 8 villages participated and shared together what they have learned and succeeded from real practice at homes.

The purpose of visit is 1) the groups learn from each other of experience and skills in households` chicken raising what succeeded or failed; 2) the groups reviewed technical, controls, best practices and changes in successful chicken raising; and 3) the groups developed plan for ongoing practical coaching and technical support.

The pictures below show the activities in cross visit sessions

The participants had been divided in small group discussion:

The representative of each small groups presented the discussion result to big group:

Sharing on best practices and changes of a successful interest group member living in Anlung Mean village, Snam Preah commune. She learned chicken raising from ADRA for one year. She recently feed 50 hens and more than 30 chicken.  She gave vaccination to all chicken and fed them as the instruction in training. Very few chicken died in each season. She spent 300,000 riels (=$75.00) in foods and caring to those hens and chicken. She sold hens and getting 700,000 riel (=$175 in 3 months). The income`s leftover from consumption in family. She saved 40,000 riels (=$10.00) in each month. Her husband and children are strongly assisting and supporting her chicken raising.

At the end of sharing session, all participant visited a chicken raising site of an interest group member next to the meeting location in Koh Svay village. The area of chicken house is clean, large and feed more than 100 hens/chicken. The owner made similar income the same to the one female interest group member mentioned above.

Most Significant Change Story - Improved gender equity and rights for poor and vulnerable women and children through empowered planning, decision making, and care.

Mrs. Oeur Theakong 54 years old living in Aren village, Snam Peahl commune, Bakan District married her husband named Soth Polounh 48 years old. They have 4 daughters and 2 sons, the youngest one is 10 years old. Main career in family, Theakong made palm cake and sell in village and her husband made palm juice and produced palm sugar. Polounh was drunk almost every day and he often beat his wife Mrs. Theakong from jealousy with other men. The family was in debt of the neighbor.  Polounh and Theakong used to migrate to work in Thailand but did not success.

Theakong has become the woman RC member since year 2016 and she regularly joined learning topics in RC discussion such as gender equity, LTP, child protection, nutrition, breast feeding, etc. She also attended chicken raising training conducted by ADRA staff in year 2016. It`s lucky her husband Mr. Polounh has become a man RC member since the beginning of year 2017 and he learned on gender equity, LTP, child protection, nutrition and etc. in RC discussion. 

Now Soth Polounh completely stopped alcohol drinking and he stopped beating his wife. He continues participation in RC discussion. He has changed habits and behaviors in doing of house`s works such as cook foods, take water from well, find fire wood, look after children, including feed chicken and plant vegetables, etc. In the last home visit by ADRA staff, saw that Polounh has good communication and delight talking with the monitoring team.

Theakong said, Since her husband has become the man RC member he helped in house`s works and did outdoor hard works for the family. Now the family is not in loan or debt. Career of chicken raising is improving the family living. Chicken/hens do not die like in the past. She is happy with getting income in the average per month 20,000 riel from chicken sale, 15,000 riel from taking care of neighbor`s buffalo, and some income from vegetable sale. Her family plans to expand chicken raising, and make home gardening to be farming gardening. “I`m thankful to ADRA team and ADRA`s supporters for the trainings I have received as well for the development activities that have been happening in my village so far” Theakong smilingly said to us. 

Animal Husbandary Training

Rice harvesting time were done to many of our Reflect Circle member, it is a good time to learn new thing to improve the knowledge. Besides doing rice planting, many of the farmer seeking for the technique of raising chicken as an extra family income during the free time. As we can see that natural chicken meat having a great demand in the local market with the constant price between $3.50 to $4.25 per Kg. However, even though the local market having the great demand of natural chicken every day, still the farmer cannot raise on time to supply according to this demand.  Agriculture team having a great pursue to fulfill this lacking point over this issues. We are concerning to any struggle which is harmful to our member who lack of motivation in raising chicken for the extra income during this free time. Many farmer were losing their courage to raise chicken again just because they’re don’t know what to do while encountered chicken sick and die too many time. However, agriculture component try to put our eyes on this issue and try to figure out for any possible way to help out so that our farmer able to try again.

Likewise, 2 animal husbandry training have been proposed to 5 villages in Snam Preash commune, Bakan district, Pursat province. This training held for 3 days started from 19 to 21 of December 2017, within 3 days all the trainee should get to understand the first start and the introduction of how to get start in field of chicken raising and can be able to select the good chick to start raising, able to build the chicken house, able to make their own chicken feed, able to clean up hygiene around the cage, able to cure diseases as well as doing vaccine by themselves. After complete this training successfully we are strongly believed that all of our trainee able to work very well on animal raising at home and we also hope that they’re can be able to earn the income from raising chicken every month.


Trainer indication the technique of using vaccine CHOLERA to trainee

Our RC member were thrilling to be workout by themselves

TOT Unit 10 (Home gardening + Permaculture)

Roll out Learning Unit (RLU) # 10
Home Gardening and Permaculture Training

Handbook for TOT training.

Nutrition are essential for all living life on earth. Vegetables and the cash crop counted as the source of highly vitamin and protein for build up the healthy body. In fact, human eating vegetable and cash crop less than meat just because meat having more highly protein than the vegetable. In the meantime, we assumed that vegetable are less protein than meat and that is why human preferred meat rather than vegetable. on the other hand, as long as we eat vegetable with the large among we still having enough protein just like we eat meat too and it even more healthy than the meat. CHOICES for Children project aims to strengthening and empowering the community household to have enough vegetable and cash crop to serve in the entire family for the whole year, especially those who has encounter malnourish. Home gardening and Permaculture were the best resource to help maintenance the food supply for every household to eliminate the malnourish from the community. However, from November 21 2017 to November 22 2017 CHOICES for Children Project held out a training over trainer to staffs and community supervisor for 2 days which is support by CHOICES for Children itself Agriculture component as the trainer. Within these 2 days we were provide on 5 brief topics: 1. Soil rehabilitate in home gardening. 2, Home gardening. 3, Design of Mandala garden, 4, System of rice intensification. 5, Understanding the factors that causes animal unhealthy. each topic were given the brief explanation to the audience as well as to exchange the experience between one another so that the audience could provide the best TOF afterward to our RCF.

Socheat perform his new facilitating skill on Soil Rehabilitation in Home gardening.



Our Beautiful Home Gardening (song service)

Good participant. He got 3/10 score on the pre-test and he got 10/10 on post test

Chetra showing the technic of designing Mandala garden and he still the audience attention.

SRI group discussion

 

Chicken Material Contribution Day



05 July 2017 CHOICES for children project made the chicken material contribution to RC interest group from 30 new villages equivalent to 180 RC interest group members after the completion of participation in animal husbandry training. This distribution were made under the cooperation between CHOICES staffs, community supervisor, chief commune and reflect circle facilitator on monitoring and keep tracking on how and what they're doing after this contribution.   

Channin is performing his facilitation speech to RC member about the essential of chicken raising



Community supervisor given his advises to RC interest group to stimulate the potential of raising animal as the family as part of income.




RC interest group sitting patiently waiting for the contribution

I am so glade to get all this chicken stuffs to work on my chicken house.

Raising chicken will support my family.

Chom family receiving chicken shelter & material for raising chicken to support her family.