Displaced from Borei Keila
My name Ousa. People here difficult. We want organization help. Need small clinic. No toilet here. Help people. I had only given Ousa my notebook to write down his name, but these are the words he left me with. I met him at Oudong last week, at a site where more than 200 people...
Cambodia’s hidden legacy: landmines still a threat
INTRO: During nearly 3 decades of armed conflict, the Khmer Rouge, as well as the Vietnamese and Cambodian Armed Forces, laid an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines throughout Cambodia. The country is now at peace but the casualties continue. In 2010 alone, landmines in Cambodia injured a reported 215 civilians. 71 were killed. The...
Children in orphanages are not tourist attractions
INTRO: “Children in orphanages are not tourist Attractions”. That’s the slogan of a new campaign in Cambodia aiming to put an end to what has become known as “orphanage tourism”. The campaign run by a local child rights group argues that despite good intentions, tourist visits to orphanages do more harm than good and support...
Boeung Kak activists fear violence, arrests
INTRO: After intense pressure from the World Bank, the Cambodian government granted a small plot of land to a thousand families facing eviction from a lake in the center of the capital. The residents have been fighting a long battle with a government-linked development company that wants the land to build luxury housing. Already more...
Legacies of War: Landmines in Cambodia
During nearly three decades of conflict, an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines were laid in Cambodia since 1970. War has ended, but its remnants are hidden underground, lurking in soil that is desperately needed for development. Landmines, cluster munitions, air-dropped bombs and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) pose a violent threat to rural Cambodians, killing...
Banlung, Ratanakiri Province
A 12-hour bus ride Northeast of Phnom Penh and I am in Banlung, Ratanakiri Province, where a dusty village road leads to Kah Chhang waterfall.
Amidst the Flood
Scenes amidst the destruction caused by what has been described as Cambodia’s worst flooding in decades. Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and the Philippines have also been badly hit.
Road to Udong
A few photos taken on a motorbike drive out of the city toward Udong, the ancient capital of Cambodia before it became Phnom Penh.
Pchum Ben Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I set out early this morning with a group of my coworkers who had invited me to take part in Pchum Ben, a 15-day religious festival in which Cambodians pay respect to their deceased relatives. Crouched barefoot in the corner of a colorful pagoda on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, small groups gathered to place...
