On Monday 2 July 2007 we were going to Xilaojia village in Funan. It took 1.5 hour drive from Fuyang to Funan. Further, we had to walk for half a hour from the main street to the village because our rented car was not able to go through the access road to the village.All people live in the village are very poor. They live from livestock raising and agriculture. They purchased the livestock after obtaining microcredit from community managed fund. The fund is contributed by Save the Children ("SC").
We visited the village for the purpose of assessing and discussing the income generation pilot project in this village. The project may be replicated to other poor places in China by SC if it works as intended. We also discussed with the villagers the difficulties and challenges they faced for more effective implementation of the income generation project. Our aim for this project is to provide our assessment on the current model and to provide alternative sustainable models. Due to her sickness, my teammate, Mihaela, a Romanian partner, has gone back to Beijing and presumed on to Romania. As such, for the Save the Children China Project, the team consists of only two members, Kevin and myself.
Notes on pictures taken at the village:
1) Trees plant on side of the access road to the village
2) Discussions held with the head of village and villagers on the income generation project
1) Trees plant on side of the access road to the village
2) Discussions held with the head of village and villagers on the income generation project
3) Kevin, myself and children in the village
4) Community activity center built by SC
5) Condition on the part of the village
4) Community activity center built by SC
5) Condition on the part of the village
6) SC team and me
7) Access road and two villagers
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