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Banteay Srei employs the ‘Most Significant Change’ technique for monitoring to capture qualitative information about the real differences the programmes are making in individual lives. The following stories of change demonstrate the impact that Banteay Srei is having on the lives of women and men in rural Cambodia.
A quiet, softly spoken young woman aged 32, Som Art is not a typical leader in rural Cambodia. Yet in December 2012, Som Art was elected by her community to represent five Banteay Srei target villages as president of her community facilitator network. “Before I was a community facilitator I was a housewife and I stayed at home and looked after my four children.
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Maly began working for Banteay Srei in 2008 as a project co-ordinator and has since become the Safe House team leader. Maly’s role involves connecting with local partners, facilitating support for clients, building good relationships with local authorities and supporting staff in the stress and difficulties they face conducting counselling with survivors of gender-based violence.
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After encouragement from her local community facilitator, Kimhouch represented her community at the Joint Climate Change Initiative in Phnom Penh on January 23 2012, where she gave a presentation on the new farming techniques she has learned as part of the project.
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This thriving mushroom farm is the result of the hard work and dedication of Kampong Chhnang One village’s community facilitators. In March 2012, 29 community facilitators from 6 villages attended a training held by Banteay Srei on mushroom growing in Battambang city. In addition, Banteay Srei provided them with the equipment and materials necessary to get their mushroom farms started.
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In Cambodia, borrowing money is one of the coping mechanisms that the rural poor use to deal with the seasonal nature of their livelihoods and key lifecycle events. “Members take out loans mainly for agriculture: for rice farming, vegetable growing and to buy fertiliser. Most members then profit from their loan and are able to pay it back very easily” Cheurn explains. Loans vary from 200,000 riel to 1 million riel (from $50 to $250), and most people pay their loan back after one year.
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Just six months ago, married couple Hut Hoeum and Pen Bun Thourn’s nearest water supply was over 100 metres away, making vegetable growing practically impossible and limiting their rice harvest to one per year. “Before we had to walk very far many times a day to collect water and we spent a lot of money on petrol,” says Hoeum.
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Grassroots development initiatives such as a cow bank and credit scheme provide the means for a family living with HIV/Aids to lift themselves out of poverty.
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“There is lots of flooding in this area, even my papaya tree was destroyed by the flood two years ago,” Vann Sovath, volunteer community facilitator for agriculture in Kok Dong village says.
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59-year-old Chooam has not always had a vegetable farm. “Before I started growing vegetables two years ago I had nothing to do after rice harvesting so I would just get drunk with friends. Sometimes when I drank I was violent with my wife,” Chooam explains soberly.
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Bun Proeuth comes to the Kampong Thov Commune Community Women’s Handicraft Centre every day to make Kramas. It took her six months to learn how to make the traditional colourful loom-spun cotton scarves, and she is now able to make up to three each day.
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