Although most of the residents at Somaly House is busy with their daily schooling, and other non-formal classes, they are even able to learn and practice agriculture as well. With the help of an agricultural trainer, and the encouragement of AFESIP management, the residents can understand more and more the importance of the art of planting kinds of subsidiary food supplies such as vegetables, mushrooms, fish raising…. The scope of agricultural project will be engraved in their memory, when after their departure for their home communities or wherever.

It is noted that the Somaly House’ residents stay here for longer years for their schooling purpose from primary to higher secondary school or from 6 to 12 years, depending on their will. The schooling is of top priority at the Somaly House. Therefore, it is very rare for the visitors to meet them during schooling hours, except Sundays, vacation and public holidays. Every evening after school hours and before dinner, they go to water the vegetables, mow the grass or fertilize the land … they are divided into groups caring those vegetables.

Consequently, where do the harvests go? Well, to the collective kitchen, preparing food for them indeed. However, the domestic cook should pay following the free market price, instead of buying them at the market. The money received is saved and used as the capital for further investment in agricultural program.

Food process programs, as the said activities above, have been integrating into training program to offer residents at all the 3 centers, not only just Somaly House, as it is an additional supplementary basic skills to get extra income or to save some expenditure on their daily food once they reintegrated into their home community, or they can train their family members on these basic skills.