Update On Sokhoeurn Khlouk
Entrepreneur: Sokhoeurn Khlouk
Location: Muk Kampoul district, Cambodia
Amount Repaid: $252.00 of $1,000.00
Entrepreneur: Sokhoeurn Khlouk
Location: Muk Kampoul district, Cambodia
Amount Repaid: $252.00 of $1,000.00
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=15610
This entrepreneur is funded by a Kiva loan administered by Maxima Mikroheranhvatho Co., Ltd. here in Cambodia. Sokhoeurn lives in a small village along National Road 6 north of Phnom Penh. As of the day of our visit, her loan was being paid off ahead of schedule. With it, she purchased fertilizer, seed, a gasoline-powered water pump and hose for the pump.
The area where she grows vegetables is directly behind her raised house and backed by the Mekong River. It is from the Mekong that she now pumps irrigation water for her crops. Since receiving her loan, she has increased her cultivated area from 100 to 150 rows. In addition to increasing her production, Sokhoeurn says the pump has made her work much easier. She grows cabbage, lettuce and cauliflower and, in a good year, can plant and harvest seven cycles. Sokhoeurn says she’s never had a net loss from her farming. Currently, she sells all her produce to a wholesaler. She hopes to one day sell retail in the district market but the cost to purchase a stall there is $3,500, a goal she’s saving toward.
Four people work this farming operation – Sokhoeurn, her husband and two of their children. Eight people are supported by the business including the two parents, four children, a nephew and Sokhoeurn’s mother.
Since receiving financing, she now has been able to send two of her boys to school in Phnom Penh. Before, they attended the community school where she says the educational quality is very poor. Children’s’ schooling, very consistently, rates as the most important goal of the business owners we’ve met. In fact, they often claim no other objective than to get the best possible education for their kids. This usually translates into forced choices of how many and which children will attend and where.
Posted by Darin Greyerbiehl from Muk Kampoul district, Cambodia
Nov 1, 2007
This entrepreneur is funded by a Kiva loan administered by Maxima Mikroheranhvatho Co., Ltd. here in Cambodia. Sokhoeurn lives in a small village along National Road 6 north of Phnom Penh. As of the day of our visit, her loan was being paid off ahead of schedule. With it, she purchased fertilizer, seed, a gasoline-powered water pump and hose for the pump.
The area where she grows vegetables is directly behind her raised house and backed by the Mekong River. It is from the Mekong that she now pumps irrigation water for her crops. Since receiving her loan, she has increased her cultivated area from 100 to 150 rows. In addition to increasing her production, Sokhoeurn says the pump has made her work much easier. She grows cabbage, lettuce and cauliflower and, in a good year, can plant and harvest seven cycles. Sokhoeurn says she’s never had a net loss from her farming. Currently, she sells all her produce to a wholesaler. She hopes to one day sell retail in the district market but the cost to purchase a stall there is $3,500, a goal she’s saving toward.
Four people work this farming operation – Sokhoeurn, her husband and two of their children. Eight people are supported by the business including the two parents, four children, a nephew and Sokhoeurn’s mother.
Since receiving financing, she now has been able to send two of her boys to school in Phnom Penh. Before, they attended the community school where she says the educational quality is very poor. Children’s’ schooling, very consistently, rates as the most important goal of the business owners we’ve met. In fact, they often claim no other objective than to get the best possible education for their kids. This usually translates into forced choices of how many and which children will attend and where.
Posted by Darin Greyerbiehl from Muk Kampoul district, Cambodia
Nov 1, 2007
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