Bou Soknen changed Health Care and nutrition for children

Before the project, she was lack of knowledge on health care and agriculture, illness, lack of hygiene, never go to have health check at HC, she didn't take care of children or our own health, believe of older people or tradition. Through involvement and learning with the project, she have more changed on health care and nutrition for children and as well as learning through play, she also mentioned that my family will have better living condition and my children go school and our health better, our community will more and more developed, I would like to say thanks to ADRA and donor who are supporting to our Cambodian people, especially my villagers

Round Table Workshop on local TV: Media coverage

Check out the Round Table Workshop on the local TV for media coverage:

Unhealthy is not always because of poverty. Anywhere and anytime, we can make it better

Check out some pictures from our staff who made a visit to one of our beneficiaries and experienced seeing her smiling faces with her lovely vegetable home garden:

 Tom Hy is an EMBRACE MCHG member, living in Chherteal Village, Chherteal Commune,
Sandan District, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia.

She enjoys with her plants and she is happy that has joined the Key Hole program
of EMBRACE to let her get more knowledge on plants with the good seeds for her plants.

She has a well in front of her small healthy house. She is using the water
from well to wash her vegetable that she's just harvested.

She has a well in front of her small healthy house. She is using the water
from well to wash her vegetable that she's just harvested.

This is her house and we can see her bicycle too. She is coming out of home.

And now she is relaxing and behind her house, is her field vegetable enclosed fence.

 Tom Hy and her smiling daughter

Tom Hy is very happy and proud of her growing

Photos: Sovoun Ong

IEC materials: Backpack: Together we improve the nutrition for maternal and child health-RLU#1-12

Backpack designed with key messages for our Project EMBRACE team and community partners as an identification and awareness about the nutrition for mother and child.

The message says:

Together we improve the nutrition

for maternal and child health

IEC materials: Poster: One additional meal during pregnancy-RLU#3 & #4

Poster design for our Project EMBRACE community members to raise awareness about the importance of additional meal during pregnancy:

The message says:

For you (darling) and our child to be healthy,
you (darling) have to eat enough additional nutritious food every day

IEC materials: T-shirt: One additional meal during pregnancy-RLU#3

T-shirt design for our Project EMBRACE community members to raise awareness about the importance of additional meal during pregnancy:

The message says:

For you (darling) and our child to be healthy,
you (darling) have to eat enough additional nutritious food every day

Growth Monitoring in each village are done to follow up children weight

Weighting and Growth Monitoring is an activity of the project to follow up the children nutrition status and connection to PD hearth, e.g if any village which found children malnutrition we will start PD hearth as fast as possible, to improve children nutrition.

Most Significant Change Stories: Miss Sam Mom

Miss Sam Mom is a Reflect Circle Facilitator to Children in Reaksa commune, Rovieng district. Her participation in EMBRACE project make more experience and more knowledge about how to play and provide care to children. She also mentioned that she is now clear about health and nutrition issues after she learnt from unit#3, 4, 6.

In June 2017, after an old Commune Supervisor, Mr. Nem Soeun resigned, we have announced to all RFCs in this commune to apply this position. The project recruitment committee received 3 RCFs to apply for CS. After doing interview and test, Sam Mom is the best candidate to fit the CS.

After passed as a CS, Sam Mom said that she will do her best to serve her community as well as ADRA project activities and learn more from the project activities implementation and she also said if she has chance when ADRA recruit staff she will apply for volunteer or staff.

Men and Women Reflect Circles join together sometimes for discussion!

Men and Women Reflect Circles join together sometimes for discussion!

Permaculture training in Sandan areas

Permaculture kitchen garden design as part of practice on the site for 27 participants on initial training for EMBRACE Sandan target areas! Can't wait to see the crop growing!

Volleyball campaigns

EMBRACE Project has also started volleyball campaigns in the community. The purpose of these activities are to promote home gardening, to strengthen solidarity of youth in community, to promote men youth health, to avoid drug use, see photos activities in Rovieng district, Preah Vihear province.

PD Hearth Program is happening right at the mother's home

The PD Hearth program is happening right at the mother's home where the mother learns to cook nutritious food with locally available green vegetables and fish..etc. for her own child to stay healthy. She practices immediately what she learns from the group sessions.

Time to be feeding and time to be fed

Time to be feeding and time to be fed. Many mothers and some fathers have come to learn at a Positive Deviant Hearth session and practice feeding their malnourished children. One malnourished child here is just so happy to be feeding herself. How cool is that?