The Road Ahead: Cambodia
If you are not a first-time traveller to Cambodia, it is no surprise that Cambodian children at tourist sites are able to talk to you in your native language, English, Chinese, French, Thai, Japanese, or even Korean. They, of course, set their sight to learn the languages to make a living, selling souvernir gifts, or even tend to be your guide.
A road too long to education:
In the last few days of our journey, we rode to the south of Cambodia to visit these other orphanage and village school projects coordinated by Thy and other local volunteers. As part-time university students and full time teachers at local schools, these young volunteers in their mid-20s had manage to find 1 hour teaching in the villages every day to help their less fortunate country people…
As a boy growing up in the fields, he had worked very hard, until one day he came first in the whole province in the public examination, and until he speaks English so well he is now a university student of English Literature and the head of an English centre in Sihanoukville.