Health care and Sustainable Development in Rural areas

The living conditions of the rural poor face all kinds of hardships and the health care system is declining due to the causes and triggers of various negative factors such as: 

1 / Lack of irrigation water to increase cultivation

2 / Lack of clean water and hygiene in living

3 / Lack of funds to improve living standards and health.

4 / Lack of understanding and underestimate the importance of health

5 / It is not possible to send children to school and use child labor to earn extra income to support the deteriorating living conditions in the family. 6 / Poor pregnant women in remote areas are at high risk until the life of the fetus and the life of the pregnant mother.

LFO has the following plans:

1 / Prepare Water Source (project No 04): with the budget of USD250 000.00

2 / Prepare Water and Sanitation (Project No 05): with the budget

  of USD250 000.00

3 / Establish an auto-financing project to generate income on two sub-projects:

3-1 / Natural fertilizer (project No 03) production and distribute in the market with the budget of USD500 000.00(employment of 100 families in the communities)

3-2 / Supporting project (Project No 7) for Parents who Allow their Children to go to School. This project involved in producing dried fish, Prahok and Phaak (Khmer traditional foods) and distribute in the market, with the budget of USD250 000.00 (employment of 100 parents who allow their children to school). Without the job to them, the Parents will not allow their children to go to school.

4 / Provide General Education (Pproject No 1) and Health care (workshops etc.) for all people in the communities with the budget of USD250 000.00. To be operated In the district of Phnom Kravanh and Veal-Veang in Pursat procince.

5 / Prepare for Training for 100 pregnant women (Project No 2) and Health care until Childbirth with the budget of USD500 000.00

6 / Shelter for accommodate poor children (Project No 6), Rehabilitation and Training and Arrange to Send poor Children to School (SRTASCS) with the budget of USD250 000.00

Grand Total(1+2+3+4+5+6)=USD2 250 000.00

Children to reach school Project: Some poor families require their children to work to earn extra money to support their families. In order to free children from work to go to school, LFO have to find something in return for the benefits of child labor

The target population is about 10% (8 591 people) of the total population of Phnom Kravanh and Veal Veng districts in Pursat province. The total of people is 85,910 people.

The target population of 10% is the poorest farmers in the region.

The challenge is the following:

1 / Lack of irrigation water to increase cultivation

2 / Lack of clean water and hygiene in living

3 / Lack of funds to improve living standards and health.

4 / Lack of understanding and underestimate the importance of health

5 / It is not possible to send children to school and use child labor to earn extra income to support the deteriorating living conditions in the family.

6 / Poor pregnant women in remote areas are at high risk until the life of the fetus and the life of the pregnant mother.

Currently, pregnant women living far away are at higher risk of giving birth. We focus on 100 pregnant women living in remote areas who will receive home-to-home pregnancy monitoring from the day of pregnancy to the day of childbirth.

As the day of delivery approaches, we will transport pregnant women living far away to our health center, ready to be sent to the delivery clinic. We have a memorandum of understanding with birthing clinics in the

districts. We also have the MOU with the most important clinics in the province in case the delivery is impossible in the clinics located in the districts.

We also have an ambulance for emergency transport. For pregnancy monitoring, we have a team to monitor the health and monitor pregnant women at home.

During pregnancy, pregnant women have the opportunity to join the Training for job and general education group, earning $ 5 per day perdiem. When participating in training and general education courses, pregnant women have the opportunity to escape from hard work at home. Education and training sessions for pregnant women to understand the importance of antenatal care, the importance of health, the health care of the family economy, the needs of family agriculture and in the community, the development of the family economy and community. Etc. Without the daily Perdiem, pregnant women have no chance of escaping the hard work at home.

Children to reach school Project: Some poor families require their children to work to earn extra money to support their families. In order to free children from work to go to school, LFO have to find something in return for the benefits of child labor.

Therefore, LFO has a program to produce natural fertilizer and prahok dried fish and put it on the market by employing parents who agree to release their children from work and allowing them to reach school.

Water source and Water & Sanitation Project:

The lifeblood of the farmers is water for irrigating various crops.

Therefore, LFO has a program to provide small-scale irrigation in some of the villages in Phnom Kravanh and Veal Veng districts. With a budget of USD250 000.00 to develop irrigation water for crops is very small. However, we must strive to develop this irrigation sector because it is the lifeblood of farmers. The digging of ponds will be carried out to irrigate vegetables near the house before reaching the project of digging large ponds and irrigation canals to increase the yield of hundreds of hectares of rice.

The use of clean water and sanitation in living is also the second lifeblood of farmers.

With a budget of USD250 000.00, we have a sample program that will be implemented on a small scale with access to clean water and explanations, especially on family and community food preparation.

Mr. Sok Kosal, the founding chairman of LFO, was born in Phnom Kravanh district, Pursat province. We are close to the community we are serving and understand the full needs of the community. We are discussing for more input from people on community development principles. The main needs of the community are water sources and irrigation systems. Lack of water for farming has led people to drop out of agriculture, cross the border and migrate illegally to find work in Thailand.

Our team will give positive signals on community development cooperation in agriculture, health, economic development with people as partners through a thorough contract.

Our team is below:

1- Mr. Kosal Sok, President Founder

2-Mr. Has Phalmony, Expert in Health care

3- Mr. Pith Khonhel, Expert in agricultre (from Rassia)

4- Mr. Doung Sarath, Master degree in Admin and Finance

Financially, we rely on donors, technically we rely on our experts in agriculture and health. Legally, we have all the licenses. Culture, Project for economic growth and marketing are also smooth.

Our business plan starts with small capital such as Invest in Natural Fertilizer and traditional Khmer food such as dried fish and Prahok production etc.

Our business models in the future are cooperating with farmers, with LFO raising funds from the international community and digging large reservoirs and irrigation canals. Farmers have LFO farm land as an investor, combined with large reservoirs and irrigation networks to cooperate with farmers when we harvest, we share one half.

Our business plan in the future:

Business in Cambodia, we are fully engaged in the business of buying natural rice and milling into white rice for sale, with a budget to set up large rice mills and a deposited sum to buy natural rice to grind into white rice for sale.

For example, the cost of two large rice mills is 2 million dollars and we have a deposited sum of 2 million dollars also to buy natural rice to grind into white rice for sale.

We could then generate revenue of around 800,000.00USD immediately by selling white rice after milling.

Remarks: 1 Ton of natural rice cost USD250.00. After milling into white rice, that cost around USD400.00. All cost is around USD300.00 (USD250.00+other cost around USD50.00=USD300.00) =>Benefit net is USD100.00, only for buying 1 Ton of natural rice and selling white rice after milling.

We rely solely on the donor community at the start of operations. The implementation of the Self-financing project for economic growth also expects funding from the donor community to implement the Self-financing project.

Business in Cambodia, we are fully engaged in the business of buying natural rice and milling into white rice for sale, with a budget to set up large rice mills and a deposited sum to buy natural rice to grind into white rice for sale.

For example, the cost of two large rice mills is 2 million dollars and we have a deposited sum of 2 million dollars also to buy natural rice to grind into white rice for sale.

We could then generate revenue of around 800,000.00USD immediately by selling white rice after milling.

Remarks: 1 Ton of natural rice cost USD250.00. After milling into white rice, that cost around USD400.00. All cost is around USD300.00 (USD250.00+other cost around USD50.00=USD300.00) =>Benefit net is USD100.00, only for buying 1 Ton of natural rice and selling white rice after milling.