ADDAs Project in Northern Cambodia is welcoming a new trainee
Publiceret: 27. sep. 2010
v. Bodil Pallesen
Publiceret 27. februar 2007
The Women-Agriculture project (IWEP) in  Cambodia was welcoming Ms. Karin Pirhofer as a trainee at the beginning of February. Karin has a master's degree in biology from Vienna in Austria but wrote her thesis at Lund University, Karin has also studied Danish at Studieskolen for half a year and had a traineeship at NORDECO in Copenhagen until the end of 2006. It was NORDECO that recommended Karin to ADDA, and already after two weeks Karin is really well integrated with the staff of the project who are almost all young women in their twenties as Karin. |
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Karin has a special interest in organic farming and is keen to follow IWEPs efforts in producing safe and healthy agricultural products. |
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Just after Karin arrived in Siem Reap, she joined a 10 days retraining course for the district facilitators and the village extension workers. Karin could meet the women working in the project. She enjoyed very much talking to them and to learn about their function in the project and to learn about the women's position in Cambodia. It was great to see the village extension workers being very interested in learning and the district facilitators and advisers teaching with energy. By participating in the monthly and weekly meeting of the IWEP staff, Karin gets to know the structure of the project as well as the way how the women are empowered. She has the impression that the women do really well, discuss problems in the group and organize their work well.  The volunteer developed an in- and out system for the storage of pesticides, fertilizer, medicine, vaccine, seeds and material for the farmer field schools. Together with the vegetable adviser the volunteer investigates the demo fields in the different villages the project is working with. She checks the vegetables for diseases and growing status. It is very interesting for her to learn about the differences between growing vegetables in Cambodia and Europe. Karin is surprised in what conditions many farmers in Cambodia live. Many live in small wooden houses on stilts with one pig, some chicken, a rooster, dogs and just some land around the house. She finds that the IWEP idea, to give knowledge to the farmers and to find a good market to sell their vegetables, is a great help to increase the farmers income. |
