By the water tanks
By Andrew Gray (March 10th, 2009)
In 2006 about 1200 families living in a Phnom Penh slum were stripped of their property and forced out of the city. They were relocated to an empty field 20km away with nothing (no homes, jobs, school, sanitation, clean water, etc.). This girl and her family were part of that exodus.
I visited a school started by a Cambodian NGO to serve the village children. The kids were well behaved, bright, and active — just like kids anywhere. I could have imagined them in a middle class in the USA. When I walked over to see where the children live, the contrast was startling.