Project Brief:

The fishermen in Cambodia live on the boat in the river to make their occupation which is to find the fish from the river to sell for get some money to support their family and they have no land for building a house for residence. Most of them live in the area in Kandal province. So, Charitable Association of Cambodian Islamic Graduates has proposed the project plan to find the SDLP/ Boat for them. The situation of this project when they get the boat they will be living, cooking and sleeping in this boat as the house of them. They use this boat with their fishing materials to find the fish from the river and sell at market to get the money for support their children and pay some needy such as food, clothes and school. In general, as the result of interviewing with them, it is shown that they can earn the income only from 20,000 to 30,000 Riels a day equally USD 5 to USD 7.5 and this depends on the area where exists fish more and less. The experience of CACIG with this project we ever proposed to many donors from Singapore and Malaysia. They always support this project and we both have to provided that boat to our people in need and the older people. The reason why we propose this project because they do not have land to build house and if we propose the shelter for them, we must find the land for them to buy land, however the price of land in Cambodia currently increases too much.
The community of fishermen is forced to live in a river by using boat or raft house because poverty, the income depends on finding fish to cover the cost of living for the family. Many fishermen can’t afford to own land or a house. The boat is just as a place of shade and worship here. Furthermore, some of them live in an old boat that is life-threat for them. This issue caused the fisherman’s children to drop out of school because they had to follow the parents to move to find fish.
Since 2018, in collaboration with the BAPA of Singapore and the donors of Malaysia and Singapore, CACIG has provided 83 boats to the fisherman families, including engine, to make a place to live and develop their life and livelihood.

Goals & Objectives of the Project:

• To deliver free-of-cost boats for them to live and use it for their livelihood purposes.
• By providing the boats to the fishermen families so that they could increase their daily/monthly/yearly income.
• To comfort their lives as they could freely do fishing, reside, cook and rest using their own boats.
• To make their families prosperous and progressive financially as well as to uplift their living standards.