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Cambodian World Family Micro-Grants In December 2001, at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors, Amaterra gave its first micro-grant of $300 to support the work of Cambodian World Family. This support has continued each year to present. This group is working with women in small villages in Cambodia. In Siem Reap, near the famous Temples of Angkor Wat, Cambodia World Family has developed an agricultural training facility utilizing a variety of organic and permaculture farming techniques. Training of local people as well as the training of trainers is a hands-on education. A variety of vegetables, fruit trees, sugar cane, chickens, as well as fish and frogs (aquaculture) are raised here as part of the facility's on-going efforts. As an integrated part of Cambodia World Family's Adult Khmer Literacy Program, agircultural training staff take part in specific literacy classes dedicated to such topics as compost fertilizers, organic pest control, and home gardening. In Kompot Province, Cambodia World Family's sub-office is also designed to be a model of near self sufficiency with vegetable gardens, fruit trees and chicken raising. Cambodia World Family's agricutural staff also trains villagers in the construction and maintenance of wells and the use of treadle pumps for irrigation. This
year, Cambodian World Family has started a Health Education and Literacy Project
in Kep. This is basically their literacy program carried forward with health workshops
in diarrhea and upper respiratory infection/bird flu prevention techniques and
behavior change methodology. Their second new project is in Prey Veng Province,
one of the poorest and least educated in the country. Here they have begun a literacy
project for 480 women and girls. Their dental project went well this last year.
Just last year alone, they provided 1390 children with 7,000+ dental treatments.
The new sustainability project that they began last year earned the dental clinic
over $5,000 in 10 months. With this money, they were able to defray salaries,
equipment repairs and purchase dental supplies for the KIND Project and dental
clinic. For more detailed information on a very worthy project contact Cambodian World Family.
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