Through this project, we, "So! Nutritious" seek to extend the shelf-life of our soya milk, and deliver it to Cambodian children living in rural area to improve their nutritional condition!!
The Problem
Compared to other Asian Countries, the development of the domestic industry in Cambodia has been remarkably delayed because of the Polpot regime of 1975 -1979 and the aftermath of civil war, making the per capita GDP one of the poorest.
The Survey ‘Demographic and Health Survey 2014’ it is reported that 32% of children are malnourished. 10% are ‘stunted or wasted’ and 24% are
1) Supply of Nutritional Food & Beverages targeting these children living in slum areas.
2) Creation of employment for poor families with support to the domestic industry.
Our story
To address the problem, we established a social enterprise in Cambodia called So! Nutritious in 2009. So! Nutritious
Because 70% of Asian children start life being lactose intolerant to dairy milk, soya milk is consumed for those with the means to purchase it or produce it. Street soya milk is made with water & soya bean with a ratio of 11/1, while So! Nutritious produces soya milk with a ratio of 9/1 adding nutrition (vitamins & minerals) to the soya milk. So! Nutritious produced four levels of fortified Soya milk.
Soya Milk (So! Soya: No added vitamins or minerals)Std - 25% RDA (So! Kids: 25% of the recommended daily allowance of nutrition)
- 50% RDA (So! Fortified: 50% of the recommended daily allowance of vitamins & Minerals, Helen Keller’s recommendations)
- High Calcium Soya Milk (So! Hi-C: Soya milk with calcium added for building up
bones and teeth)stronger
Consequently, soya milk is a very familiar product, produced and sold all around the streets in Cambodia. Data indicates that nine people out of ten
Morbidity: ask whether the children get some disease symptom (cold, stomachache, fever,
Vitality; ask which condition the children is (1, Very active; 2, Active; 3, So so; 4, Not active)
We believe that we need to market the ‘So!’
Our project
Currently our product range is a low temperature ‘Fresh Pasteurized Soya Milk’, allowing the maximum of nutritional input of vitamins & minerals into the milk, for the benefit of the consumer. This results with the product having a shelf life of 1
The lack of nutrition in children, and therefore their poor immune systems
So! Nutritious Mission statement our mission to be able to deliver safe and high-value soya milk to many Cambodian children.
As a result, we would like to further increase our nutritional impact
Who We Are
Graham Taylor is the Founder/Director of So! Nutritious Co Ltd, who has worked in the New Zealand Dairy Industry for many years. He is married to Sue with 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren living in NZ. Graham & Sue have lived in Cambodia for 13 years. In 2004 Graham applied for a VSA (New Zealand Volunteer Services Abroad) Assignment and was appointed to Cambodia as a Management Advisor for a local NGO (The Association of the Blind of Cambodia). On working within this NGO he discovered why such a high percentage of Cambodian children became blind when they contracted childhood infections like Mumps, Measles, and Chicken Pox. This was due to an inadequate immune system within their young bodies, because consume mainly rice. (Carbohydrates). These children live with their families in a very poor environment, who cannot afford
Discovering that 85% of the population
Mil Mean is the Manager of So! Nutritious Co Ltd. He is from Cambodia and started working for soy milk in Hager NGO since 1998 to 2008. Then he had continued to work
Mean was growing up in the Hager foster home program, which is the shelter for orphaned children. He learned about electronic engineer, so Graham invited him to make his career continuing in So! Nutritious. He felt the sympathy to Graham and decided to work in So! Nutritious.
How can you help?
We hope you all have been encouraged by our vision and want to jump on board as well!! Please support us by donating on the page, posting on your social
With each different level of “donations”, you will enable
We will use all the support except for project establishment costs for the development of our soya milk factory and gift of soya milk to slum children.
For that reason, I think whether the return is low for you, but prepared something that you can firmly confirm the state of delivering soya milk to children and new factory equipment (we will send you a
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