Our farm in Kampot is fully-functioning. This was a very good project and we are very pleased that after all the hard work that was involved in the construction phase we are now ready to begin the farm-work proper.

We breed pigs and chickens on this farm, enabling some people with disabilities the chance to earn a living, and others the chance to gain training - hopefully leading to some of these trainees establishing their own farms. As well as this however, we also have ambitions for this farm to serve some extra special functions.

In the surrounding villages, there is a high rate of children with Cerebral Palsy. As many people know this is a devastating condition, and many of these children have no way of accessing school. We set up a day care centre/kindergarten at this farm, providing nutritious food, care and life skills, and basic education for some of these children. We hope that, after spending some time with us, some of these children can go on and enter the mainstream schooling system at primary level.

We also set up a special medical centre at this farm in order to serve the needs of pregnant women and new mothers who live in the vicinity. Many people in this area do not have access to hospital facilities, and so we aim to be able to provide a service to them. We also hope that a side effect of this will be that more children will be given access to polio vaccinations. Many of the children we help at Yodifee are in fact polio victims. The fact that a simple vaccination could prevent this disease makes the situation so much sadder, but also makes us all the more determined to win the battle against polio in Cambodia.