Mithung
A loan of $7,975 helps to buy organic hens and their organic feed.
Mithung's story
She is a 58 years old and a member of the Akha tribe living in Wawee Village in the hills of Northern Thailand, near the Myanmar border. She is asking for a loan to purchase 700 hens to produce organic free-range eggs for Hilltribe Organics (HTO), the social enterprise which created the market for organic free-range eggs in Thailand, using organic agriculture to help poor farmers like her out of poverty. This will be her sixth loan with Kiva for her HTO egg farm.
Before she started with HTO, she grew conventional vegetables on her family land and was barely able to make ends meet. Caring for her hens and selling their eggs provides her and her family continuous monthly income and allows her to have a respectable life.
Hilltribe Organics was named The Most Sustainable Farming Model in Thailand in 2022 by the Thailand Department of Livestock Development and won the 2022 global Sustainable Food Farming Award from UKNGO Compassion in World Farming.