Mon, Nov 02, 2009By Kimberly Spykerman
The Straits Times
CAMBODIAN villager Reun Rim was selling noodles on the street and earning 75 cents a day, until she heard she could get a loan of US$100 (S$139) to start a farm.
The money is a loan from VisionFund, a World Vision initiative which offers the poor in developing countries a leg-up, not a handout.
With the sum of money, the 29-year-old and her husband began rearing pigs in Samrith village, located 30km from the provincial town of Kampong Thom, north-east of Phnom Penh.
Within a month, they were making between US$2.50 and US$5 a day, which covers their loan repayments, food for the family and, most importantly, their two children's school fees.
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