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My Scholarship entry - Pho Kham Village

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Every household in the village provided a special service. One family ran a rice-whiskey distillery, another owned a machine for de-husking rice. Luat's family grows tobacco and he spends his free time rolling endless cigarettes and doting on his grandaughter

Capitan, the patriarch of the family, was a medic in the American War and still acts as the village nurse for simple maladies . When asked what his favourite thing to do was he simply answered

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Food in Pho Kham was simple fare. Endless sticky rice, fresh greens, mushrooms from the jungle and when someone has a hankering for fresh meat, the kids are sent down to the river to hunt frogs. A few weeks before I arrived, a water buffalo drowned herself in a water-way and the whole village turned out to pull her out, butcher her and the meat was shared amongst all the families.

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