1. Caritas helping in Cambodia

2. Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
We work alongside local organisations in other countries to help people who are experiencing poverty or injustice.

3. DPA Cambodia
Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) is the local organisation we support in Cambodia.

4. Where in Cambodia
We are helping 26 villages in the provinces of Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri.

5. Challenges in the village
Cambodians living in these villages work hard and face many challenges:
Producing enough food to eat and sell;
Adapting the way they grow crops due to the changing climate;
Protecting their land because others come and cut down their trees;
Gaining formal legal ownership of their land – their valuable home.

6. Working together
Caritas and DPA help Cambodians work together (in co-operatives) to make enough food for each other and to sell at the market.

7. Producing food
Caritas donated this rice milling machine to help the villagers save money. Now they don’t need to pay someone else to do it.

8. Adapting to climate change
DPA advises farmers to use seeds that grow when there is not enough or too much rain.

9. Adapting to climate change
DPA shows farmers how to look after their vegetables to make sure they grow well.

10. DPA trains model farmers to then teach others how to farm effectively.
Model farming
DPA trains model farmers to then teach others how to farm effectively.

11. Forest patrols
Caritas and DPA support teams in the village to set up forest patrols to protect their land from others who cut down their trees.

12. Owning land
Caritas and DPA help villagers to mark out the boundaries of their land and apply for legal title for formal ownership.

13. Great partnership
We are so thankful for the great people we have met in Cambodia. We are keen to continue helping everyone we can.

14. Thanks for being part of the Caritas team
Helping the people of Cambodia
Photo credits: Crispin Anderlini and Murray Shearer (Caritas Aotearoa NZ)