Tag: cambodia
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Pom
This man lives in a house in a Pagode, together with his son and 2 other men. His wife and 2 other children live in the province (pum tjaam, eskrit). He spends his days praying, and eating, nothing much. Later Akeng tells me that they moved to the Pagode 20 years ago, because his […]
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Mrs. Vanny
Mrs. Vanny lives in Phnom Penh to make some money to send to her province, her sister, who is blind, still lives there . She rides her bike and sells cookies in the center, by that she earns 2 – 5 dollars a day.
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Sim Puch and Orn Khun
Sim has been a teacher his whole life, also training other teachers how to teach their students. Because of that their family with 8 children moved a lot around between different province schools. His wife Orn has worked as a a seamstress. Since she stopped working 20 years ago, she takes care of their household, […]
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Have you ever a seen a Coca Cola commercial with a smiling 85 year old couple?
Have you ever seen a Coca Cola advertisement in which two smiling elderly of 85 years old look at each other, radiant, sipping on the same straw? Forget it. Our visual culture is focused on young body images. With a demography in which the vast majority is young this is the ideal, even for the […]
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Yoeum Phor
n the village of Chung Thnal, close by Siem Reap, we are welcomed in the house of Yoeum Phor. She is a widow of 76 years old. She lives by herself in a wooden house with a garden around where she keeps some chickens. A lot of people and children are in her garden, and […]
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Khwon Chhoeut
Khwon Chhoeut (76) is a man who owns houses and rents them for income. He and his wife (71) live together in their own house. He tells us that after his daughters finished studying and moved away, he asked his nephew and niece, children of a poor relative, to come and live with him, as […]