Our project in remote areas of Kratie province has been renewed and expanded from 4 to 10 villages. Last week I visited the 6 new villages, meeting with the village chiefs and new project participants. We also made time to visit 2 of the existing villages and was delighted to meet up with Mokrea again….
Tag: Kratie
Visiting Sokhim’s Vegetable Garden
During my visit to Kratie in January 2023, I meet with a poor farmer named Sokhim who lives along the Mekong river in Kratie province. She is a recent widow whose husband passed away after a lengthy illness leaving her to raise five children on her own. Sokhim’s husband was building a new house for the…
A boy named January
During my visit to Kratie in January 2023, I attended a village savings group meeting and meet a boy named January. Actually, he’s named មករា, Meakaraa, which is the Khmer word for January. Several community members told me that មករា was “not normal” and blamed his mother, Sophea, because she did not “did not take…
Visiting Sros’ Farm Two Months Apart
In November 2022, I visited Ros Sros on a remote island upstream on the Mekong river in Kratie province. Sros is a poor farmer who lives in Damrae village who is following the climate resilient agricultural techniques she learned from MCC’s partner Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT). She has five children and also supports her…
Three Sisters on an island in Kratie province
In November 2022, I visited one of the MCC/Cambodian Rural Development Team project participants on a remote island in Sambour district, Kratie province. She is a poor farmer named Sopheat. She’s part of the local vegetable producer group and village savings bank. She had started a tremendous vegetable garden and I asked her why she…
Monitoring Visit to Kratie – January 2023
In January, I scheduled my backlog of blog posts from 2022 to publish once a day and then traveled out to Kratie province on a monitoring visit to the Rural Livelihoods and Social Cohesion in Interethnic Communities project. This was my third visit to the project villages in Sambour district, Kratie province – the first…
Monitoring Visit to Kratie – November 2022
In November I traveled to Kratie province on a monitoring visit to the Rural Livelihoods and Social Cohesion in Interethnic Communities project. I was on my own this time – unlike our April 2022 visit – and met up with staff from our partner Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT). The trip from Phnom Penh to…
Kratie Project Visit – April 2022
Late in April 2022, our family was finally – after two long years of COVID travel restrictions – able to make the trip to the remote Northeast and visit the project in Kratie province. When we came to Cambodia in 2019 I had planned to take the girls along on field visits regularly but due…
Three New Service Worker Positions with MCC Cambodia
It seems hard to believe but our Peace Coordinators, Rory and Marcia, have 10 months left in their term of service with MCC. It seems like only yesterday that we were praying desperately for their safe arrival after their flights were delayed because a plane collided with theirs while taxing on the runway in Philadelphia…