Breaking the cycle of poverty Communal farm run by city’s hardcore poor begins to yield vegetables

KUCHING: Sungai Apong Community Farmlet, an initiative to help the city’s hardcore poor and the first of its kind in the country, is starting to bear fruits.

Every morning between 8am and 10am, seven women till the land and tend to the seedlings. Then they return home to prepare lunch and pick up their children from nearby primary schools, after which they return to the farm for another two to three hours of work.