Adding to basket
Thoa, a Thai ethnic woman who stands first from the right in the photo, is the leader of Na Tau 69 group. Today, she turns 44 years old and lives with her family in a traditional stilt house in Dien Bien province, a mountainous border area in the Northwest in Vietnam.
She suffers from severe illiteracy and a lack of basic knowledge, therefore she is aware of all the hardships of her life. Both husband and wife always fight to raise her two children to study. After leaving high school, her two children got hired as employees by local construction companies.
Like many local residents, most of her income comes from farming and raising household animals, which involves planting rice and raising chicken and common carp fish.
Thoa's family has an advantage to own an available fish farm that covers an area of 2,000 square meters. Her husband invested in common carp fish for 3 years because they seemed easier to raise, used less food inputs than the others, and the products can be sold at higher price. Eventually, Thoa decided to take out a loan from the Anh Chi Em program to expand scale and production capacity.
With support on a wide variety of finance and non-finance services from the Anh Chi Em program, she hopes that her investment will be successful, so she can set goals to positively change their lives. A part of profit will be used to reinvest in carp fish, and another part will be only used for necessary expenses. Thoa dreams that her family will be always filled with warmth and happiness.
In this group: Thoa, Dung, Hoa, Muon, Doan
