The Chicken Farming Development (CFD).  The long-term objective isthatthe CFDcontribute greatly towards poverty reduction, self-employment and nutritional enhancement for disadvantaged families in the Banteay Meas and Chum Kiri districts, KampotProvince.  Beneficiaries join a half day training on poultry farming, management and maintenance, run by the CCAF community development staff, who have three years experience in supporting families and training CFD.  After training, each beneficiary receives five hens and one rooster, and a small grant to build the chicken pen. Supporting addition, the beneficiaries contribute materials to build roof and some parts of the pen’s frame.  After an appropriate time, the beneficiary will return 6 chickens or money to the project extend the new target group.

Lack of economic opportunity, wide spread poverty, and limited access to education are inter-related issues in rural Cambodia. Providing early childhood education alone is not enough. This project is designed to assist vulnerable farmers who require technical support and basic necessities including seeds, agriculture tools, fertilizer and vocational training to improve their agriculture productivities. The CCAF team has noticed that most farmers do not grow any vegetables after harvesting. CCAF has also documented that many husbands and older boys and girls have left their families immigrating to Phnom Penh City or other neighboring countries to work in factories, as moto-taxi drivers, construction workers, housekeepers and other low skilled labors. Additionally, many mothers have become widows when husbands have passed away due to HIV/AIDS or work related accidents. All of these situations, and others, force the younger children to drop out of school to help support their families. Without increased economic opportunity, many children will not be able to attend school even when it is available.

CCAF intends to provide services to its target groups including: 1) referal of beneficiaries to join vocational training; 2) providing materials as a means to improve food security or start up businesses; and 3) basic counseling and advice to beneficiaries in order to improve their existing businesses.