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ABOUT USenjoy good living conditions and strong mutualcooperation, with the right and power to determinetheir own destiny, as well as playing an importantrole in supplying healthy food for the whole society.The partnership between CEDAC and VisionFundCambodia started in 2009 to provide farmers enoughcapital to increase their farming and agriculturalprocess through the purchase of necessary agriculturalequipment. By 2012, VisionFund has provided loansbenefiting 602 households.PATH is an international non-profit organization thattransforms global health through innovation. PATHtakes an entrepreneurial approach to developingand delivering high-impact, low-cost solutions, fromlifesaving vaccines and devices to collaborativeprograms with communities. PATH has collaboratedwith Hydrologic Social Enterprise to partner withVisionFund Cambodia since early 2011 to first pilotwater purifier program in Kompong Speu to promotewater and sanitation hygiene. The pilot proved quitesuccessful and was later scaled up throughoutKompong Speu and other provinces, such as Kandal,Takeo and Kompong Cham, even in closer partnershipwith VisionFund Cambodia. We’ve currently had 12,644clients (US$293,061 portfolio) who used the loan topurchase water purifiers/ filters.In early 2012, we started to pilot another new relatedsanitation financing product (for latrines) in Kandalprovince in a tripartite partnership between PATH, iDEand VisionFund Cambodia to promote basic hygieneand sanitation. Overall, we’ve currently had 1,658clients with a total loan portfolio of US$108,898.iDE (International Development Enterprise) focuseson developing market systems to serve the needs ofthe poor in developing countries. For more than eightyears in Cambodia, Vietnam, Timor Leste, Laos, andnow in Nepal and Bangladesh, iDE has been a pioneerin the application of market-based approaches toimprove household water treatment, sanitation andhand washing (WASH) in rural areas. iDE’s approachexploits the comparative advantages of the privatesector,government, and NGOs to reach large numbersof poor households in short timeframes.ISS (International Solar Solutions) offers a wide rangeof turnkey solar products, such as solar panel, electricalcharge controllers, batteries and inverters from variousinternational brands including Mitsubishi, Showa Shell(Japan), German Solar and Sun Power (USA). VisionFundCambodia has launched a new social product called“solar energy loan” in partnership with ISS. We offerloan to clients to purchase solar kits for home lightingas part of promoting child education at night andcontributing to the reduction of global greenhouseeffect. Solar Energy Loan product was pioneeredlaunched in Kampong Thom in 2011 and currently hasabout 31 clients, with a US$4,843 portfolio.Following in the footsteps of iDE’s long traditionof expertise and know-how, Hydrologic today isan independent legal entity and social enterprisedelivering safe drinking water to more than half amillion Cambodian people through the well-knownTunsai CWP. In order to tackle the poor drinkingwater conditions in rural areas, Tunsai (rabbit) ceramicwater purifier (CWP) was introduced by InternationalDevelopment Enterprises (iDE) in 2001.ADRA (Adventist Development & Relief Agency)focuses primarily on sustainable, long term developmentprojects with the rural poor and with populations thatare at risk. ADRA assists those in needs without regardto ethnic, political or religious affiliation.Since early 2010 VisionFund Cambodia and ADRAhas been partnering in Phnom Kravanh District,Pursat Province. ADRA’s beneficiaries borrowedfrom VisionFund Cambodia mainly for agriculturalproduction and for starting or expanding their smallbusinesses. There are currently 662 clients with a totalloan portfolio of US$184,512.30 VISIONFUND CAMBODIA ANNUAL REPORT 2012