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Two sisters in Cambodia building on each other’s success

March 4, 2016



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Siem Khut has been farming rice in her rural village in the Kampong Cham province of Cambodia since she was 10 years old. She “feels like an expert now” especially since she has “faced so many challenges: drought, flood, crops destroyed by insects, cows coming to eat the field…” You name it, she’s encountered it. Read more about how she was inspired by her sister's loan success at Kiva's Medium page.