Savun's Group
Status: Reviewed
$400.00 Loan Request
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=28513
About the Group Group Name: Savun's group
Group Members: Sokhorn Sbaung , Savun Choun
Location: Muk Kampoul district, Cambodia
Primary Activity: Farming
Loan Requested: $400.00
Repayment Term: 12 months - repaid monthly
Loan Use: To buy diesel irrigation pumps for growing grass and straw
Date Created: Dec 19, 2007
These two families live in a small village along the Mekong River about twenty kilometers north of Phnom Penh. They are requesting this, their first group loan from Maxima, to buy two small diesel-powered water pumps for irrigation.
Mrs. Choun Savun (age 48 – right in photo) and her husband (age 44) have been married since 1978. They have ten children, five of whom still live at home. Of those, three still study in school. As a child, she attended school for only three years and, like many Khmers (Cambodians), she focused her life on working to survive. Savun has been weaving grass mats since she was a young girl. She and her family also grow some of the grasses and straw they use for weaving.
Mrs. Sbaung Sakhorn (age 55) and her husband (age 60) have been married since 1970. They had eleven children but two died. Six still live at home with their parents and only the youngest boy remains in school. Like Savun, Sakhorn has been weaving since she was young. Neither Sakhorn nor her husband ever attended school.
Both weavers also buy some weaving materials such as reeds from villages across the nearby Mekong River. They sell everything they produce to people in their and nearby villages. A mat, typically used as a sleeping pad, will last for two to four years and costs about (US) $9.00.
$400.00 Loan Request
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=28513
About the Group Group Name: Savun's group
Group Members: Sokhorn Sbaung , Savun Choun
Location: Muk Kampoul district, Cambodia
Primary Activity: Farming
Loan Requested: $400.00
Repayment Term: 12 months - repaid monthly
Loan Use: To buy diesel irrigation pumps for growing grass and straw
Date Created: Dec 19, 2007
These two families live in a small village along the Mekong River about twenty kilometers north of Phnom Penh. They are requesting this, their first group loan from Maxima, to buy two small diesel-powered water pumps for irrigation.
Mrs. Choun Savun (age 48 – right in photo) and her husband (age 44) have been married since 1978. They have ten children, five of whom still live at home. Of those, three still study in school. As a child, she attended school for only three years and, like many Khmers (Cambodians), she focused her life on working to survive. Savun has been weaving grass mats since she was a young girl. She and her family also grow some of the grasses and straw they use for weaving.
Mrs. Sbaung Sakhorn (age 55) and her husband (age 60) have been married since 1970. They had eleven children but two died. Six still live at home with their parents and only the youngest boy remains in school. Like Savun, Sakhorn has been weaving since she was young. Neither Sakhorn nor her husband ever attended school.
Both weavers also buy some weaving materials such as reeds from villages across the nearby Mekong River. They sell everything they produce to people in their and nearby villages. A mat, typically used as a sleeping pad, will last for two to four years and costs about (US) $9.00.
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