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My Scholarship entry - Cambodia- a Country of Colour and contrasts.

Cambodia | Monday, November 24, 2014 | 5 photos

I am growing to love Cambodia even though my first visit there in 2012 was to bury my bother who lived and died there. The people give you the friendliest welcomes despite it's horrific past and posses an optimism for the future although many still life lives in great poverty. The average wage is less the $100 per month and in Pheom Pehn almost half of that will be spent on rent of squalled small room which all the family will live in with a shared bathroom and cooking area with others in the complex. Without the luxury of modern facilities everyone is neatly turned out making me feel quite scruffy in my crumpled travel clothes!