Cow Raising Project for Families

Type: Asia Cow in Cambodia. It costs $500 per Cow.

Item Specifics -Size: Medium -Height: 1.20 m -Width: 0.50 m -Length: 1.70 m -Colour: Black, Brown, Red, White

Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries with a high percentage of the population living in rural areas. Almost all these families dream to have a cow for their families. 80% of rural families will never be able to afford one cow.

The cows for CBAVC is essentially a cow bank, we loan families a pregnant cow, they must look after it and when it has the baby they get to keep the baby and we take our cow back and then pass onto another family. It's more about providing an opportunity to break the poverty cycle rather than a direct handout. Each family signs a contract to ensure our cow is looked after and strict rules are followed to ensure the best outcomes for all parties. The funds raised help towards caring for the cows (veterinary checks and vaccination).

We provided over 20 cows to families through donations. The project is enables the rural families to have access animal draft power. The raising of cows provides much more advantages for the farmers with plowing, transportation means and agriculture of rice in their community.

Beside the agricultural activities, cows are widely used for the production of milk and cows reproduced calves every year for utilization or selling to support family income, cow dung can be used for fertilizer for agriculture of rice and vegetation and for many other activities, no chemical substance and non-hazardous to the environment and land. It would be easy for farmers to get more money from raising cows and they will get profit $1,170 USD in one year (if they sell).

The success of this project has been overwhelming, so much so that the long term goal is to have 2,000 cows in the project which will make cows for the rural areas, one of Cambodia's biggest agriculture charity projects.

Thank you for your support!