Hope Gardens - Suon Sangkhum

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Hope Gardens (Suon Sangkhum) are fast growing food forests that produce perennial sustainable fruits, nuts, vegetables, medicinal herbs, and proteins that aim to help end hunger as well as provide balanced nutrition for healthy holistic life and growth. Hope Gardens also include a water well and tower water system to provide clean water.  Free hand washing stations and public showers promote cleaner living conditions that will also help prevent illness and disease.  Living fruit fencing invites the community into the shared space  to help encourage community gatherings. Dovecotes (man-made shelters for pigeons) help to provide essential proteins necessary for healthy growth and life.  Free public showers promote cleaner living conditions that help prevent illness and disease. Wind Turbines on the water towers allow for use of lights at night, electrical equipment, and charging phones. Free libraries encourage learning with a unique learn-at-your-own pace education system.  An inter-community seed and tool share network will ensure the ability for the communal creation and upkeep for the Suon Sangkhum.  Each Hope Park include a playground and pavilion to provide a safe community place for children to play and adults to gather.

All of these benefits are provided to local Cambodian communes/slums and villages at absolutely no cost to the local community.  The locals will be trained in maintaining and preserving these perennial food sources for each impoverished area. This gives these wonderful people the opportunity to show their skills and worth and enables them to take pride in their accomplishments. The local communities, together with Kalpavriksha Vanara, can improve the health, well-being and morale with completely sustainable improvements that benefit current and future generations.