Ms Kong Srey Oun with her husband Mr Hip Yun, have two daughters and a son are living at Kandal village, Kampong Seng commune, Prey Veng province. This family is very poor and marginalized. Her husband works as labour support family day by day and Srey Oun looks after children at home. One day their child got sick, they have no money to pay for treatment. They decided to sell a small plot of rice land for treatment bill. As they are very poor, they could not join the coop membership. CAC village enterprise project has begun to this location in late 2013 and choose this family as pilot activity.
First, CAC discussed with her family about the possibility of skills so that they can join the project. After discussion, they haven’t any skills but Srey Oun wants to raise pigs so she can also look after the children. As they are very poor, they want to get out of the poverty. CAC linked her to the local expert and invested 50$ for two piglets (pig for meat) and extra two piglets, she got loans from the cooperative. Since project begins in early 2014 to March 2015, she sold her pigs four times (she sold once every three to four months) and her profit has bought the rice land back, dig a well close to the house and bought two cows. She still has three piglets in her cage. She sent two older children to school. Now she wants to put some shares with coop and join a membership in 2016. Before join membership, she deposited her savings into the coop. Her savings now is 460,000 riel (equal to 115 US$). As many organizations did not success with pig raising. CAC has worked closely with famers to build the ownership and knowledge of income generation so that they will be able to participate with rural economic development. Now there are 10 poor women join the pig raising project with successful stories of individual.