Rural Cambodia is poor. This country has been ravaged by war and the horror of the Khmer rouge in our lifetimes. Many people and countries have stepped in to salvage Khmer culture and support the Cambodia people. Savong is a young man who has started a school and orphanage providing free education in a rural area outside Siem reap. The school relies on foreign support and welcomes volunteer teachers of English, Japanese and Korean, languages that will help these kids to work in the whirl of tourism around angkor wat.
On Monday Jan 23, we rented bikes and rode out to meet savong and his family at their home and guesthouse near. Long ride, not really knowing where we were going as it was not where we expected, then missing it, getting my cambodian sim card phone to work, we made it and arranged to teach every afternoon while we are in Siem Reap this week.
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