Tuk Tuk for Peace!

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Gender Male
Industry Transportation
Occupation driver
Location Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Introduction Tuk Tuk For Peace' is a creation by Sim Sao, a Tuk Tuk Driver in Siem Reap, Cambodia. My Dream is to provide hassle free and safe transportation in and around Siem Reap and the Angkor area at an affordable prefixed price. Part of the proceeds will go directly towards supplies for free education schools run by monks in the countryside. I would be honored to show you my country!
Interests In rural Cambodia, many families face hunger season for five-six months of the year. ( Rice planting season in Cambodia and the beginning of the hunger gap [ Aug-Nov] ) Progress Agriculture Bank .It is created by Sim Sao, live in Pongro village, Kantreang Commune, Prasat Bakong district, Siem Reap province. Progress Agriculture Bank (PA), a bank have activated in village progress families and agricultural sector for lending rice, seed, pigs, cows as opposed to money. First PAB provide rice with very small interest rates, in order to work with poor families so that they can survive living sustainably in the future, what the village members do is divide up the husk rice in the bank around this time of the year, each families getting around 100kg to 200kg each, depend on members of family. Then in November, when the harvest comes in, they pay back the husk rice they owed to the husk rice bank together with around 10% interest e.g in another 10kg addition. Second PAB provide pigs, cows for breeding during dry season. Because of (free time) the families don’t have a rice harvest so PAB lend them with piglet and small cows interest. Our Vision: Village, Commune Development. Our Mission: Part of the proceeds will go towards supply for free education school, disaster in village. Families Development, urge families let children attended school earlier and reduce the work of children. Our Goal: Reduce hunger season, poor.
Favorite Movies Previously farmers borrowed rice from private lenders with high interest rates. Through their participation in the rice bank, they can borrow rice with low-interest rate. In addition, the interest paid remains in the hands of the community. Especially, for poor and vulnerable families, the PA bank helps prevent them from falling into debt due to the high interest rate charged by private money lenders. The objective of our Rice bank is not only to help the community of Pongro village during periods of food scarcity, but also to mobilize financial resources for community projects voted on by the village. Generally, the PA bank has a broad impact on the life of its members and on the whole community. The PA bank not only helps to ensure food security, but it contributes to the development of social capital, human resources at the local level and community physical resources. Families in rural Cambodia regularly have to face drought and flood, so it becomes really important to find ways of making sure families have access to food all year round. Rice is an essential staple to a Cambodian’s diet. A 6-member family requires 5.5 pounds of polished rice per day (i.e. almost 2000 pounds per year). For the poor, this is such a great quantity. Having access to a rice bank also reduces the work of women who would otherwise have the labor-intensive task of searching for food during periods of rice shortage. It makes our Progress Agriculture Bank so important for the long-term sustainability of rural communities.