Family stories
Em Proeung, 50 is an amputee household head who lost his right leg by mine accident when he was employed as soldier in 1980s the fighting period between Khmer Rouge and Cambodian government soldiers. He married with 7 children (four girls). Both of him and wife don’t have permanent job rather than collection of recycling materials and wild leaves for sale which are able to generate less than US$ 1.50 a day.Read More...|Sponsor this case
Dy Phim family remains at-risk and vulnerable condition even though her family received support from SSF which led them to able develop their better livelihood from zero to an upper level which enable them bought own house plot, construction of own house, had pigs and cows to raise as well as has own television, batteries and etc..
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Grandma Phon Ngaet, 82, lives with a mental health daughter and her son. She is the oldest widowed household head. She can survive her family through working as traditional birth attendee as well as the neighbors feeding her while another mental health daughter always leaves home to somewhere else to beg.
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Yen Nhaem , 40, married with four children (one girl). Her family living condition is almost the same to other 29 households live in her smallest village that SSF focuses to help develop their community at the moment. The opportunity is being offered them starting from provision of a hand pump well to enable opportunities.
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Samphas knows how to sew and she can sew for other 29 households within her smallest village. In her smallest village it has only her that can sell sewing services. The neighbors strongly encourage SSF to support this family a sewing machine as they said that it will help them to save time in getting their old and used clothes to sew outside village.
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Sok has a piece of land that her adult children can grow vegetables but due to this family living condition is hardly even produce food from foot-to-mouth so they cannot allocate 100 US dollar to buy seeds and agricultural tools to do the business. Sok wants to loan through us the amount to begin home-grown organic vegetable gardens.
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Mam Yoeun knows how to raise sow but anyways due to poverty situation threatens to her family so she cannot manage to buy with a sum of 150 dollars. Yoeun dreams to get it. She said if she has a sow thus her family livelihood will be better as her sow will be able to produce piglets twice a year. Through she will able generate profit at least 250 dollar a year.
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Nov Seung, 33, mother of two children aged 4 and 10 months. Nov family lives with very difficult circumstance as they don't have own hut, house plot, paddy rice field and other properties. Nov was an orphan lived with her older brother since she was too young. Her parents were killed by Pol Pot regime.
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Thorn doesn't have enough cattle to plow their paddy field so she came and intended to borrow $250 to buy cow and start her grocery business. Cow is very essential item that poor and every family live in rural areas want to get. Cow can assist them in paddy field as well as produce calves and its dung will gain their crop yield and etc.
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Mei Savoeun, 48, now lives apart from her husband who lives by the Thai border along with their eldest daughter and her husband. The whole family moved away to this place in the hope of prosperous opportunities since they did not receive any rain for over five years, they soon realized this was not so, and that is why Savoeun retuned.
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Sour Sopheak has been married to Lim Theary for the previous four years, Theary is the oldest sister of Thea and Rithy who are currently staying in SSF. Rithy was a trafficked victim was released by SSF late 2008.Sopheak has recently had a second child; another son.
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The Nouv Channy family has been struggling for some time to afford to send all its children school, they were so desperate for their children to receive a good education that the borrowed $100 in order that their eldest son Ratha continue his education. Unfortunately tragedy recently struck the family as Jurys father passed away.
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Meet the At family. Samol, 28 and his wife, Semsamat, 27, are struggling to support their four children, aged 2 to 11 years old. At Sok Em, aged 11 and his brother At Sok On, aged 7, currently attend the local school, which is a 2km walk from their home.
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Chum Tol did not even have enough money to finish building her house, and this was the source of her problems and the catalyst for SSF to intervene. The house had a roof, but no walls and this posed a real threat to her two beautiful daughters who...
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