On November 24th, 2022, NH033 came to the counseling room with a sad face. She was sent by her mentoring teacher for not completing her homework. She started the conversation by telling about her lack of concentration in studying. It was understood that she missed most of her sessions while taking classes via Zoom during grades 7 and 8. At the time, she lost her motivation. As a takehome, she got some exercises to practice at home to improve her situation.
Khuat Thi Lan was selected to be a client of the Cow Bank Project in Nui Be village, Chuong My district, Ha Noi in 2017. Her family had a chance to receive a cow and start working hard for their own cow herd. Her family had been raising cows and buffalos for other people in her village for daily incomes. They does not has a field to plant rice. Their house is built from a charity fund.
Like other group members in Lang Cu village, Phuong Giao commune, Vo Nhai district, Thai Nguyen province, the family is a client of the Vo Nhai Income Generation Project, raising pig for income. The family has a small field to plant rice, which only needs one person to do the farming. The husband Dang Huu Ha are working far from home and therefore just comes home evey two months. The wife Dang Thi Hue is always busy with house-work, looking after the children and the animals. Hue is raising pigs and chickens to earn money. Even in the mountainous area, their house is more remote from other houses in the village. Hue is kept at home and not even meet anyone for weeks.
