Rice bank

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If a family has a poor harvest then they won't have enough food to last them a full year. This means they'll go hungry for the month or two before the next harvest.

SCIAF have helped Kun’s village and other villages set up their own rice banks. These stop families going hungry. Here’s how they work.

• The whole village supports the rice bank by putting in a few bags of the rice that they have harvested.

• A village committee decides how the stocks are used – they give rice out to those families who need it most.

• Sometimes people put more rice in than they get back but everyone gets help in the long run.

• The rice banks are on stilts to protect them from pests and insects which can eat their way through a lot of rice!