This project with long-term BGR partner Rachana aims to improve food security, health, gender equity, children’s educational opportunities, and living conditions for poor families and vulnerable individuals in rural Cambodia. While Cambodia has made great progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, extreme poverty remains widespread. The Covid pandemic has further increased food insecurity among vulnerable households, especially poor women, female-headed households, the elderly, and those who are ill or disabled. School closures mean that children with limited access to online learning platforms are at risk of falling behind in their studies; girls and young women are especially vulnerable.

Working in twenty villages in three communes in Cambodia’s Takeo province, Rachana will continue to support 240 family farmers’ ongoing use of climate-resilient rice cultivation techniques to increase resistance to drought conditions. This year, Rachana will expand its work to two new communes to address overuse of pesticides and mismanagement of chemical waste, working with 20 farmers in each of twelve villages. Rachana also provides food and cash support and small-business mentoring to 50 poor families with school-age children and supports health and hygiene education for students in ten primary schools in the area. The project benefits approximately 5,000 people, more than half of whom are women and girls. Annually renewable project.

This project with long-term BGR partner Rachana aims to improve food security, health, gender equity, children’s educational opportunities, and living conditions for poor families and vulnerable individuals in rural Cambodia. While Cambodia has made great progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, extreme poverty remains widespread. The Covid pandemic has further increased food insecurity among vulnerable households, especially poor women, female-headed households, the elderly, and those who are ill or disabled. School closures mean that children with limited access to online learning platforms are at risk of falling behind in their studies; girls and young women are especially vulnerable.

Working in twenty villages in three communes in Cambodia’s Takeo province, Rachana will continue to support 240 family farmers’ ongoing use of climate-resilient rice cultivation techniques to increase resistance to drought conditions. This year, Rachana will expand its work to two new communes to address overuse of pesticides and mismanagement of chemical waste, working with 20 farmers in each of twelve villages. Rachana also provides food and cash support and small-business mentoring to 50 poor families with school-age children and supports health and hygiene education for students in ten primary schools in the area. The project benefits approximately 5,000 people, more than half of whom are women and girls. Annually renewable project.