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Battambang, KH – HPH family earn profit from pig fattening micro-loan – 11 Nov 2016

HPH with his fattened pigs ready for marketHPH and his wife earned US$330 from selling two pigs at the local market. The money from the pig loan went to paying for their three children’s school fees and to savings for buying a cow.

HPH received a loan from the Healthy Life Garden shop for two piglets which they fattened up to be 100kg each. They were able to sell them for US$2.50 per kg and earn a gross profit of US$500! After repaying the loan they were able to net US$330.

HPH and his family in their gardenThey dream of improving their home and saving up to buy a cow in order to increase their assets.  It is their hope that one day they will be able to send their children to University.