As the first project of an ambitious initiative to regenerate forests on the mountain slope of Abang Mountain on East Bali regency, PT Restorasi Alam Hutan (PT RAH) is working with the local community to introduce cash crop farming. The cultivation, harvesting and sale of cash crops will provide community members with livelihoods that are not dependent on further forest exploitation and generate funds and momentum for further forest regeneration initiatives. The impact loan will finance upfront costs to prepare, cultivate, plant and harvest chillies, cucumber, zucchini and bitter gourd on 2 hectares of degraded land. The produce will be sold into a growing local market. Sales will provide ongoing employment, profit share to the local community, enable loan repayment, and support expansion of farming to more hectares of degraded land.