News

General Management Team Meeting 2018

November 09th -10th, 2018, Chamroeun held the second GMT Meeting 2018 at Kep Province; under the presidency of Mr. Yannick Milev as Chief Executive Officer; to update on the key achievements regarding to social, financial and operational performance within the year 2018 and business plan 2019.

Taking that opportunity, Mr. Yannick, CEO of Chamroeun was also deeply grateful to all managements and staff for their efforts to make Chamroeun move forward positively. He also congratulated to all staffs that have made a great progress, these are all their efforts, and it's not by chance. In the last six months, Chamroeun have achieved satisfactory results, with portfolio at risk par smaller than 2%, loan portfolio over 50 billion KHR and loyalty rate is greater than 70%. The good connection between all staff members, each department, each branch, between each branch and the head office has made Chamroeun able to work better through discussion to achieve its goal.

Scholarship awarding program 2018-2019

Scholarship awarding program by CFA is also counted as a social mechanism to support partners’ children and the poor community we work and live to get the higher educational background. The scholarship awards include study materials for the whole year, tuition fee, and bike as the transportation mean to and from their homes to school.

On October 30th, 2018, CFA held the fifth Annual Scholarship Awarding Program 2018-2019 to poor partners’ children of Chamroeun Microfinance Institution. There were 450 applicants qualified for this scholarship program with 95 applicants who won the scholarship awards from CFA. Besides, the following years that CFA launched its scholarship program in 2013 there were applicants mainly from primary school won the scholarship awards as below:

2013-2014 : 84 students
2014-2015 : 201 students
2015-2016 : 96 students
2017-2018 : 148 students

Chamroeun commits to keep this spirit of generosity in helping poor partners’ family across the country to get better coverage and scheme for the next forwarded years as we strongly believe that financial services alone are not enough to help our targeted beneficiaries, the poor population, lift up from the poverty.

General Management Team Meeting 2018

June 04^th, 2018, Chamroeun held the first GMT Meeting 2018 at Siem Reap Province to update on the key achievements regarding to social, financial and operational performance within the year 2017 and first semester of 2018 and business plan 2018. Mr. Yannick, CEO has appreciated for all participants especially the operation team who had performed well within the year end 2017 and continually doing well for 2018. Chamroeun has increased its loan portfolio, improve loan quality, increase active borrowers and got the profit as of November 2017 and “Now we are doing the right thing” quoted from CEO.

Taking that opportunity, Operation Manager has also showed the champion branches for the year 2017 based on the 6 absolute conditions. There were top 5 branches such as Siem Reap, Puok, Soutr Nikom, Kongpong Thom, and Pursat, and the top 3 branches of the year 2017 fall to:

Puok Branch
Soutr Nikom Branch
Siem Reap Branch

ALINUS Dashboard Chamroeun Microfinance Plc

Chamroeun is a Private Instiution

Water Sanitation and Hygiene Training

CHAMROEUN conducted two village presentation meetings on “Benefits of Water, Hygiene and Sanitation improvements” to villagers in Siem Reap province (for Siem Reap and Soutr Nikom branches) where villagers, especially women learned and shared ideas on their daily practices on drinking/using water and toilet.

By strongly supports and involvement from and good collaboration with village chief, Women Health Supporting Group in village level and local authorities, we achieved 84 participants (70 women) from two districts – Siem Reap (Kork Chan village, Ampil Commune) and Soutr Nikom (Ben Village, Dan Run Commune). They are proud and happy to see Chamroeun come to educate villager in purpose WASH behavior change.

We are committing to helping them become open defecation free and accessing clean/safe water.

It should be remind that on June 28, 2016, the fire destroyed few houses which located in Thnot Chrum Village, Sangkat Boeng Tompon, Khan Mean Chey. Among those households, three were Chamroeun’s partners, Chamroeun is very sorry that this unexpected calamity happened to partners. Through Chamroeun Foundation Association, we contributed to support our partners with the very basic stuffs that they need. Hopefully, they will be able to recover from this difficult situation.

True Money

May 3^rd, 2016, Chamroeun Microfinance Limited and TrueMoney Cambodia Limited signed an agreement on bill payment service. Under this agreement, Chamroeun's partners will be able repay their loan through about 5000 TrueMoney Agents cross 25 cities/provinces in Cambodia. As mentioned by Mr. Pheng Raksa, CEO of Chamroeun, this agreement is another progress for us besides financial services, which we have been offered to partners as our mission and vision, to improve the livelihood of the poor partners as we've done so far, including the socio-economic services, micro-insurance and so on.

For this new additional service will play an important role in helping partners in the payment of loan to Chamroeun through TrueMoney agents with a special fee of 1,600 riel only per transactio. Also I believe and sincerely hope that this loan repayment service will provide benefit and the right choice to partners, which helps them to save cost, safety, convenience and flexibility as they can make their repayment even on holidays or weekends. Chamroeun and TrueMoney will continue to support and promote this cooperation to work smoothly and get support from several partners.

House Fire Relief for Partners

March, 2016, Chamroeun Foundation Association contributed a budget to 4 partners of Chamroeun who faced house fire on February 8^th, 2016 at Toul Roka Village, Sangkat Chak Angre Krom, Khan Mean Chey, Phnom Penh. CFA has provided some cash and helpful items as their basic necessities. We are very sorry to partners who are the victims of house fires, and hopefully they will quickly recover their business activities and livelihoods.

Wing

To develop a better repayment method for our partners, Chamroeun has signed an agreement with Wing in late 2014 and the service was roll out to all branches by mid-2015.

Chamroeun expected that this service would provide another option for our partner to repay back their loan to us through any Wing Agent in 25 city/provinces in Cambodia. Instead of coming to Chamroeun’s branch office, this service provides them benefits as:

- Saving Time and Money: Reduces time and costs of transportation for making repayment at Chamroeun's offices, by making repayment through Wing Agents which are very closed to their residents.

- More convenient and flexible repayment time: Partner can make repayment even weekend, holiday, out of business hours.

- Multiple currencies accepted: Partner can make repayment in different currencies, in place.

S.T.A.R Certification

January 2016, Chamroeun received a certificate from MIX Market as STAR (Socially Transparent And Responsible).This certificate is recognition to Chamroeun for attaining a certain level of alignment with both the USSPM and green microfinance principles, as measured by MIX’s SP indicators.

MIX Market (www.mixmarket.org) is a data hub where microfinance institutions (MFIs) and supporting organizations share institutional data to broaden transparency and market insight. This exchange enables users to establish reporting standards, alleviate reporting burden, and promote responsible investment. Supported by validated social and financial performance data, MIX Market provides analysis on risks and opportunities in the markets where MFIs operate.

This platform is provided by MIX. MIX promotes responsible financial services for underserved communities through data analytics and market insight. Incorporated in 2002, MIX is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC with regional offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

To learn more please visit: http://www.mixmarket.org/about#ixzz3yzfkrzMP

Extended MoU with PKMI Cambodia

The current and targeted partners of Chamroeun are the poor households in Cambodia who are not able to access to a formal financial services. We are actively support and protect them through our social and financial services, and more than that we believe that a formal healthcare is crucial for them to secure themselves from serious illness and unexpected calamity in their family.

From these reasons Chamroeun strongly supported its Foundation (Chamroeun Foundation Association, “CFA”) in the initiative to introduce a health and life micro-insurance scheme under a partnership with PRÉVOIR (KAMPUCHEA) MICRO-LIFE INSURANCE PLC., to its partners as a part of helping them mitigate risks and manage shocks since early 2013. This agreement has been extended to prolong the secure to our partners and their household’s members. Take part to this scheme, a partner or his or her household member is only paying a small amount of the premium which is approximately about USD 0.65 per month to cover the hospitalization, accidental disability, and death.

Annual Scholarship Program 2015-2016

Chamroeun Foundation Association (CFA) held their third Annual Scholarship Program 2015-2016 on 21^st October, 2015 to poor partner’s children of Chamroeun Microfinance Institution. For this academic year 2015-2016 we have received 586 applicants from all the branches cross 16 cities/provinces of Chamroeun Microfinance Institution. There were 96 applicants have been selected to get this scholarship, and among them there were 56 old scholarship recipients and 40 new scholarship recipients. The package of scholarship including school materials for a whole school year, bicycle as transportation.

CFA still firmly believe that management and staff of Chamroeun will continue to push the spirit of generosity in helping poor partners’ families across the country to get better for the forwarded year. And CFA also commit to fulfill sustainable responsibility and accomplish its action plan and future direction for efficiency and effectiveness.

The academic year 2013-2014 is the first celebration of CFA for annual scholarship awarding program, it is the open journey for CFA as well as Chamroeun to give back to community and poor partners. For this first annual event, there are 85 poor students who come from around the city have received scholarship package with study materials and bicycle throughout the year including with tuition fee, study materials and bicycle. This ceremony was held on September 30^th, 2013 at Phnom Penh Teacher Training Center.

Mr. SUON Sophea, Executive Director of CFA and Chief Executive Officer of Chamroeun microfinance institutions said during this event that “this is the first time CFA for this scholarship program in the academic year 2013- 2014 85 poor students, including educational materials for a number of years, tuition fee and bicycle for transportation and activities will be held every year”.

Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUiSLI--Ps&list=UUVu_e62cVMCe7etVqb-Haqw&index=4

French TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z80shdqhJU&index=5&list=UUVu_e62cVMCe7etVqb-Haqw

Microinsurance is a mechanism to protect poor people against risk (e.g. accident, illness, death in the family, and natural disasters) in exchange for payments tailored to their needs, income, and level of risk, but in Cambodia, very few poor households, include Chamroeun's partner, have accessed to formal insurance.

Along with the efforts to reduce above mentioned vulnerabilities of our targeted partners, Chamroeun actively supported its Foundation (Chamroeun Foundation Association, “CFA”) in the initiative to introduce a health and life micro-insurance scheme under a partnership with PRÉVOIR (KAMPUCHEA) MICRO-LIFE INSURANCE PLC., to its partners as a part of helping them mitigate risks and manage shocks since early 2013. Take part to this scheme, a partner or his or her household member is required to pay a small amount of the premium which is approximately USD 0.50 per month to cover the hospitalization, and accidental disability, and death.

Based on the positive results in terms of both figures and level of satisfaction expressed amongst the institution's partners who are engaging in the scheme, Chamroeun fully rolled out to all operational areas across the country where 41 offices in 15 provinces/city, in early third quarter 2014. Currently, 4,327 partners of Chamroeun are insured by this program which 901 partners are their household members.