You're a village woman. There's never much money in your pocket, but you're used to that. You, your husband and children plant a few vegetables, have a few chickens,  plant rice, and hope for the best. But the best doesn't come. The rice harvest fails, so your husband goes to Bangkok to get day labor work. He goes just for the dry season, but the rainy season comes and he doesn't come back. He never comes back, and you are now a village woman with a family and no husband.

What do you do?

Ask any farming family in Thailand's poverty-stricken Sa Kaew province, and they'll tell you that's a normal story.  But for many of the villages in Taphraya district, that story has changed. Project L.I.F.E. Foundation saw the need and, hand in hand with the village women, are solving the problem.

Our  Project L.I.F.E. coordinator visits the villages, talks to the women, and asks how they would like to help themselves. How can they earn enough in their spare time so that their husbands don't have to go to Bangkok to work? The answers are different in different villages. Some plant vegetables, some make handbags, some do weaving, some raise silkworms, some run tiny little co-op ‘gas in a barrel’ gas stations. U

p to now,  Rural Women’s Development has helped over 79 families stay together. That’s success. It’s also success when 30 ladies involved in 3 village weaving projects weave a total of 3825 meters of top quality cloth..almost 4 kilometers! That’s an amazing amount considering the ladies are only able to weave when they are not farming rice. Equally amazing is that all the cloth was sold the moment it came off the loom!
 
Anything is possible where hope lives. Project L.I.F.E. gives that hope through Rural Women's Development.

For more info,
please contact us at:

Rural Women's Development
P.O. Box 34
Taphraya
Sa Kaeo 27180
Thailand

Email: phiinoo@gmail.com

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