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| A fisherman in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. |
Friday, 20 May 2016
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Ta Prohm Temple in Siem Reap Province, CAMBODIA.
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| Mysterious trees at Ta Prum Temple, Siem Reap province, Cambodia. |
At Bayon Temple in Siem Reap Province, CAMBODIA.
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| Three faces in one line. Don't you see that? Siem Reap province, Cambodia. |
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Angkor Wat, CAMBODIA
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| Read here for the full story of Angkor Wat Temple: http://www.tourismcambodia.com/attractions/angkor/angkor-wat.htm |
Friday, 22 January 2016
I listened to this boy story,
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This boy is 13 years old. He works so hard in the brick factory to
help earn income to repay the debt of his family to brick factory owner.
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I was in Battambang Province, CAMBODIA.
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| Cambodian countryside boys. |
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| A little boy in the village, Battambang province, Cambodia. |
At Kien Svay, not far away from Phnom Penh City.
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| Floating vendors, Ken Svay resort, Kandal province, Cambodia. |
Thursday, 21 January 2016
I met her in the village (she is collecting paddy (unhusked rice))
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| She is collecting paddy (unhusked rice). |
I saw them once I was on my way to Koh Dach!
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| One of the activities of the countryside children. They are picking guava. Cambodia. |
Life!
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| A homeless guy is sleeping at the National Garden (in front of the Royal Palace) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. |
Flowers!
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| Sunflower. This was taken in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. |
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| Jasmine. This was taken in my home garden, Phnom Penh. |
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
My most favourite photo! The love of his father!
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| This photo was taken in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. |
Monday, 4 January 2016
A New Hope For The Two Orphan Children After a Surgery (Written by me, Vichheka Sok)
This story was written in 2012 when I was working with World Vision.
A New Hope For The Two Orphan Children After a Surgery
By: Vichheka Sok
Eighteen-year-old Sreyroth and her brother Vuth, 19, live about a two hour’s drive from Phnom Penh City, the capital of Cambodia. They live in a small house with an old zinc-roof and worn out palm leaf walls together with their 70-year old grandmother. Their parents died of AIDS years ago. As a result, they grew up experiencing many difficulties.
Sitting in her home on the old bamboo bed, Sreyroth says, “I am so happy for World Vision’s care and their effort to restore our health. I have hope now and I see myself looking like other children. I don’t have a big stomach and no more dry skin. I used to always hurt inside every night when I slept. I sleep well all night now.”
World Vision’s Community Care for Children (CCC) project staff has tried many ways to send the two to get blood testing. After they were convinced, Sreyroth and Vuth were diagnosed with abnormal hemoglobin associated with HBE/Beta- Thalassemia.
With strong support from the CCC project team, World Vision offered, personal financial support to the two poor children. As a result, both Sreyroth and Vuth got surgery in February 2012.
“I am so happy to have World Vision staff accompany and buy me good food during I am in the hospital,” Sreyroth says. “I am happy because I think I will be healthy soon. Thanks for every blood donation of World Vision staff, thanks for financial support and emotional supports of World Vision staff.”
“My brother and I now have a new life. We can take a good care of our grandmother who has tried very hard to take care of us.”
“I will try to study hard because World Vision provided me with a bicycle, so I will ride it to school and I hope to be a good teacher because I am in good health now.”
“I had no hope before the surgery. I was also scared of the surgery, but I thought I had to try it since World Vision staff was always with us and encouraged us to be strong. In my life, I will never forget World Vision and those who donated blood for our surgery.”
Vuth says, “I want to give big thanks to World Vision and all the people who helped us. We are so lucky to have you all. I will study hard to be a doctor, but I am not sure if I can, I’ll try. I love my grandmother, and I will take care of her because she’s already old and I am now healthy.”
Sreyroth and Vuth’s 70-year-old grandmother through a beaming smile says, “I hope to have long life till 100 years old, so I can see my grandchildren grow up to achieve their dream. I am so excited for my grandchildren. I really love my grandchildren; I told all my neighbors that my grandchildren are healthy now and they will have a good life.”
“I appreciate all the support from World Vision, especially the people who donated blood to help my grandchildren during the surgery. We are so lucky to meet good people like you. Without World Vision, my grandchildren would die ahead of me because of sickness. I am so happy, I am able to smile from my heart now because of the very big help from World Vision.”
Sreyroth and Vuth are still being monitoring by a doctor as they continue to take medicine. They are advised to avoid heavy jobs, even sweeping the house or cooking because of the surgery. They keep smiling and appreciate their new chance at life.
Vuth sadly recalls, “Our daily food is just tamarind leaves mixed with salt, and sometimes boiled small fishes.”
Sreyroth and Vuth look really different from the other children. Sreyroth remembers, “I got pain inside my stomach almost every night and it was hard for me to sleep well.”
“And because of how I look, other children in the village teased me and my brother with rude words and calling out ‘Hey you are grandmother and grandfather,’” Sreyroth recounts.
“I feel sad because my grandchildren get stomachache so often and I don’t know what to do besides applying balm on their stomach. But they still got pain and cried,” the grandmother says. “The doctors said there is a malignant growth in their stomach, and it can be cured if we have enough money to get an operation. Everything needs money to be solved, but we are so poor,”
The grandmother earns a meagre income by collecting firewood and picking tamarind leaves in the village and sells them to buy food.
As an 18-year-old, Sreyroth doesn’t want to look small and ugly. Her family is supported by World Vision’s Community Care for Children (CCC) which covers their education and basic needs. The project staff has tried many ways to send the two siblings for health check-ups in the local community and the capital city. The staff has even sent them to meet an American doctor on a missionary ship to Cambodia last year in Sihanouk Province. However, their health is still not getting better.
Sreyroth says, “I sometimes cry in the night from my stomach pains, but World Vision staff have continued to help me meet many doctors. I really want to be healthy and have a happy life.”
“We want to be healthy and live longer so we can take care of our grandmother who is already old,” they share.
The success of the operations would not have been possible without the generousity and sacrifice of World Vision staff, several of whom donated their own blood. The surgeries originally had to be delayed because the children were too weak and more blood supply was necessary. In response, Thano announced that World Vision staff would donate blood donation for the two vulnerable children.
Sreyroth and Vuth were very thin with big stomachs and had pale, dried skin. Now, they look fresh and happy after successful operations to take out malignant growth in their stomachs.
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