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Neary Khmer - Cambodian Women 
Neary Khmer is a local Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) (not for profit) and is Non Religious, Apolitical and Non Racist. Neary Khmer is dedicated to working with the poorest, most vulnerable and disadvantaged women and their children in rural Cambodia. To date, NK has only worked in Siem Reap Province – one of the poorest provinces despite the more than two million tourists visiting Cambodia’s Angkor Wat each year which sits not far from the provincial town.
Neary Khmer was founded by staff of Australian Volunteers International and the Centre Canadien Détudes Et De Cooperation International (CECI) food security project in 1998 and was registered with the Ministry of Interior in 2002.
Neary Khmer is one of only 33 NGOs (of many thousands in Cambodia) that has achieved voluntary accreditation in Governance and Professional Practice (Quality Assurance) by the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia. This was achieved in April 2011 and is current for three years.
Neary Khmer has been involved in various community development projects including the following:
- Nutrition of children, pregnant and lactating women including growth monitoring and rehabilitation of malnourished children
- Home gardening to improve nutrition and increase disposable income
- Access to safe water – rain water harvesting, drilling of wells, water filters
- Improved water systems for irrigation, home gardening such as water hand pumps, constructing and rehabilitation of irrigation channels
- Animal husbandry (pigs, chickens) and agriculture
- Aquaculture (fish raising)
- Women in governance
- Micro finance and savings groups
- Community rice banksmall business development
- Emergency and disaster management and response
Neary Khmer works with communities directly as well as through local structures such as commune councils, district authorities and health centre staff. NK aims for sustainability in all projects and by working with village volunteers for most projects, is hopeful that many of their activities will become sustainable once NK projects have finished.
Distribution of Water Filters to Prevent Waterborne Start-up Resources for home agriculture in a
Illness and Disease floating village
Facilitation of Rice Banks to Prevent Rice Shortage in Small Business Enterprise
the dry Season Small Business Enterprise.
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