She is happy and proud (both at home and farm): A story of woman in Cambodia shows everyone has the rights to better livelihood
Ms. Him Sothea is an example of the woman who could change her life from nobody to a well-recognized organic rice farmer.
12 January 2016
Him Sothea, 49, a mother of three daughters, living in Chum Teavchreng Village, Tang Krous commune, Kampong Chhnang Province. Her older daughter is 21 years old, studying at university in Phnom Penh while the youngest is studying at grade 7 in the community. Ms. Sothea has been working in agricultural farming since she was young. Her parents and so do her grandparents were farmers. After her graduation at grade 6, she married and cultivated rice on one and a half hectares of land in the same way her ancestors had been doing. More>>>
