Thy Ouch

Thy Ouch
Status: Inactive
$500.00 Loan Request
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=27189

About the Entrepreneur Name: Thy Ouch
Business Name: Fishing
Location: Ta Khmao district, Cambodia
Primary Activity: Fishing
Loan Requested: $500.00
Repayment Term: 12 months - repaid monthly
Loan Use: To purchase one calf and buy fish traps.
Date Created: Dec 11, 2007

Mr. Ouch Thy (age 50) and his family live in a small village off of National Road Two about fifteen kilometers south of Phnom Penh. Ouch and his wife (age 47 – see photo), have been married since 1980 and have two children. Both children have finished studying in school. One is married with two children of her own. All of them, as well at two grandparents live at home – total of eight persons. Ouch (pronounced “ook”) has fished since he was a young boy. His wife explained that he fishes for two to three months of the year in the Tonle Bassac (river) a tributary of the nearby Mekong. The remainder of the year he fishes a nearby lake using locally made fish traps (again, see photo). They are requesting this, their eighth loan from Maxima to buy a cow and fish traps. Ouch’s wife said a trap costs 70,000 Riel (US $17.50). She also said he can catch twenty kilos on a good day making about 50,000 (US $12.50), depending on the types of fish he catches.