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SAO SARY FOUNDATION (SSF) is anon-profit, non-government, non-political party organization

working to help poorest of thepoor and vulnerable families in theCambodia’s poorest communitiescaring for their children especiallygirls from all forms of violence,exploitations and abuse. Ourdedicated team is committed toprovide emergency support toextremely poor communities inCambodia to reduce drop-outrates from public schools and toassist families in becomingeconomically self-sufficient sothey can provide for their ownchildren without having toinstitutionalize their children inorphanages. Children have a rightto an education and to grow upwith their own families wherepossible.

SSF was registered with theMinistry of Interior (MOI) of the

support some girls whom living withextreme poor families to attendpublic school while their parents areimpossible and wanted them to jobseeking.

SSF uses its effort to aware themuntil this happening again for themwith new methodology that theirgroup responsible to their investedmoney own self. SSF is really proudto see positive impact to this villageand poorest people can sit down

Publisher: SSF Volume 1 Issued: April 15, 2008

Monthly Meeting with Riverkids ChildrenSSF Executive Director met 10 educational sponsored children grantedby Riverkids foundation On Saturday 02, February 2007 at SSF officelocates in Kampong Speu province. This meeting was focused on how isgoing on with their education after they attend secondary school morethan three months and given them insecticide [SSF gives insecticide tosponsored children every three month].

Almost children, they reported us that their education is still low rankamong their classmates because they never get extra training at

Teacher's home especially mathematic subject. Teacher gave them anaverage score and suggested them to learn and pay extra money if theywant to be better score. Some of them requested us to support learningextra course on Mathematic at their teacher's home and others promiseus to wake up at the early morning and learn by them self to ensurethey can pass or not.

At the end of meeting, those children were weighted and gaveinsecticide tablets and we plan together to improve hygiene, working asteam, assist monks of champatep temple to do something as guidance

Monthly meetingith Riverkidshildren.

Villagers in Daunrt village formed alf help group

Now people plant nd grow vegetables

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SF, we do everythingensure poorest of e poor and

ulnerable families ine Cambodia’sorest communitiese able to care for eir childrenemselves!

Dear Colleagues,

SSF woul d lik e t o exten d t o yo u ou rsinceres t appreciatio n t o al l SSF fundin gand technical advising partner s wh ocontinu e financia l support and technicalassistance , withou t you r contributio n itwoul d no t b e possibl e fo r u s t o continu eou r visio n an d wor k t o help poorest of thepoor and vulnerable families caring fortheir children and avoid them from allforms of violence, exploitations andabuse throughou t th e Kingdo m o f Cambodia . Whil e th e extrem e need s o f th e poo r an d vulnerabl e in Cambodia t o

figh t fo r surviva l ar e fa r fro m satisfied , yo u ca n tak e prid e in th e knowledg e tha ttogether , in 2008 , we continu e t o mak e area l impac t o n th e live s o f thos e ver y

poo r an d th e mos t vulnerable .

T o ge t a rea l sens e fo r th e progres s o f whic h yo u ar e vitall y essential , we hav e

prepare d thi s newslette r t o brin g yo u u pt o spee d on event s and activities a s the yhappe n an d t o giv e yo u al l a bette r fee lfo r th e fact s o n th e ground ; wh o hav e wehelped , wha t hav e we learne d an d ho wca n we improv e in th e future .

W e sincerel y welcom e you r contributio nin SSF work . W e wis h yo u al l th e blessin go f long , fruitfu l live s an d meaningfu lwork , an d we shar e in th e drea m o f continue d peac e in ou r belove dCambodia . I remain ,

Sincerely Yours,

People in Daun Art village formed a Self Help Group

20 housewives of the poorest of the poor and vulnerable familiesin Kampong Speu province's Samrong Tong district's Skuscommune's Duan Art village joined together forming a Self HelpGroup in their village and invested 10000 Riel (about USD2.5)

each member, according a consultative meeting facilitated by SSFstaff on February 10, 2008.

At the beginning, this group is having a look each other to findsomeone among them to become a group leader, Secretary andtreasurer that they believe that they can become to grouprepresentatives directing their group and to easily collaboratewith SSF and other stakeholders. This group members will beelected their representatives next week when they will meettogether again to collect the investment capital as appointmentdeadline.

Please we back to review something that happened before thisgroup was formed with serious working by SSF in attemptingservices supports to them. People in this village, they were nolonger believable to other services supported from socialorganizations because they said that "they used to cheat by someNGOs that they accessed into this village and asked them toinvest likes SHG but after they gathered money from them, they took the collected money into their personal pocket money". They

' Now People doSSF would like to share you an amazing success story that wegot from a community in our target area that we mobilizepeople in this village from doing nothing on the land to green

field at the moment. 10 poor families among the household inthis village change their habit and follow to a demo farmer wetrained and advised. SSF delights to see this happen in theirvillage. SSF never thought that a little support from us giventhem positively impact to their livelihoods.

Please we go back to see what happen within this community, Tonlab is the name of a village lo cated in Skus commu ne,Samrong Tong district, Kampong S peu province. Villagers in thisvillage, they did not habit to pl an or grow their crops in dr yseason or when their land is free from rice transplantation. Onlya season a year, they transplant their rice crop and wait toharvest.

Late 2006, SSF accessed into this village and began to supporta poorest family sending their three underage girls that parentsattempted to seek job as garment factory for to school and thena select another family to be a demo famer, plant morning gloryby using non chemical fertilizer . Villagers over there, don'tbelieve to what we did and they gave value less to us by sayingthat "Now is a chemical fertilizer era, most people they use why

you are crazy to return back" and "Why do you need to plant vegetable likes morning glory? It is cheap price [on market] it

will not balance to the labour and capital you invest?” Yes, In fact, They told us the correct answer if we plant morningglory like what they habit to do, planting one ridge or row andwaiting to harvest and then continue to plan another one butwhat SSF and demo farmer do is creating a Morning GlorPlanting Business for a family that they at least grow 10-20ridges per month and they have to harvest them from 25-50