Weekly update for LAN project of the forth week of Sep 2023

The Participatory Community Development for Livelihoods Improvement and Nutrition Promotion in Rural Areas (LAN) has been implemented by The Association for Rural Mobilisation and Improvement (ARMI) in 30 villages: Atsaphone, Thapangthong District, Savannakhet Province, and DakChueng District, Sekong Province.

10/17/20231 min read

In the last week of September 2023, we monitored the activities of the target groups in each area. We saw that many activities have progressed, such as: in DakChueng District, Sekong Province, we monitored rice planting, prepared planting sites, guided 12 families in digging fish holes and guided them to cook fish food, monitored 45 families in raising goats, trained patrolling and collected data in the protected forest area with 25 participants (3 women).

In Thapangthong District, Savannakhet Province, we gave frog breeding equipment and recommended installation to 5 families, signed a memorandum of cooperation to carry out raising fish for 4 families, monitored the construction of goat cages for 11 families and monitored frog breeding for 4 families. It is seen that frogs raised in ponds grow fast.

At the same time, in Atsaphone district, Savannakhet province, we also monitored the frog raising of the target group of 22 families, the goat raising of 2 families, made a joint record of the mushroom planting activity of 3 families, we encouraged the families who received the fish raising activity to build a fence around the basin and prepare the wood to set up the basin for 3 families.