Author: LEAK Ratna

Senior Staff from AZEECON member countries receive capacity development training

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (June 23, 2014) – Senior staff members who perform community development work and facilitate training activities from AZEECON member countries received a week long TOT training on “Facilitating Food Security and Livelihood Programs in the Context of Climate Change”, held from June 16-23 in Phnom Penh.

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LWD distributes $150,000 in donations to flood affected families in Battambang

Bavel, Battambang (June 12, 2014) – Life With Dignity (LWD) distributed today recovery aid to 558 families and planned next week for 1,912 more families, all of whom were the poor families seriously affected by flood last year, from 47 villages of 6 communes in three districts of Bavel, Kamrieng and Phnom Pruek in Battambang province. Each family received a donation of $60 in cash. Continue reading “LWD distributes $150,000 in donations to flood affected families in Battambang”

Findings: LWD Country Strategy scores highly in rural poverty reduction effort

Phnom Penh (April 7, 2014) – Life with Dignity’s (LWD) Country Strategy 2009-2014 was in line with the Government’s National Poverty Reduction Strategy and substantially contributed to improving the livelihoods of the poor community in rural Cambodia, according to the preliminary findings of the evaluation presented at the workshop today in Phnom Penh.

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LWD distributes power tillers to 400 families living in social land concession area in Kampong Speu

Aoral, Kampong Speu (March 28, 2014) – Life With Dignity (LWD) today distributed 16 walking power tillers worth $44,000 to 400 poor families living in the social land concession area in Reaksmei Sameakki commune of Aoral district in Kampong Speu province.

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Embassy of Japan, LWD Sign Grant Contract on School Construction Project

Phnom Penh (March 26, 2014) – The Embassy of Japan to the Kingdom of Cambodia and LIFE WITH DIGNITY (LWD) today signed a grant contract worth US$108,793 to construct a new concrete school building and necessary school facilities in Chhean Laueng Commune, some 30km from central Sameakki Meanchey district of Kampong Chhnang province.

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LWD inaugurates two water projects in Kampong Chhnang province

Kampong Chhnang Province (Mar 22, 2014) – Life with Dignity (LWD) today inaugurated Water Supply System Project and Irrigation Project, worth $115,538 in total in Kiri Akphivath village, Chhean Laeung commune of Sameakki Meanchey district in Kampong Chhnang province, some 30 km from the district town.

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Findings: Promoting Child Rights to Health and Education Project Ends Successfully

Phnom Penh (Feb 07, 2014) – The Project “Promoting Child Rights to Health and Education” was a great complement to the support for the government’s policy on child rights to improved education and health care, according to the preliminary findings of final evaluation on the implementation of the project presented at a half-day workshop today. Continue reading “Findings: Promoting Child Rights to Health and Education Project Ends Successfully”

Impact of land grant to landless and land poor families

Aoral District – The livelihood of 400 landless and land poor families who settled in on the new land granted by the government under its Social Land Concession Project (SLC), funded by Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF)/World Bank, were significantly improved over the past two years.

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