A child scarvenger searches for recycling materials along a street in Phnom Penh. Cambodia's growing demand for recyclables -- from bottles and cans to cardboard -- has seen a sharp rise in the number of child scavengers trawling through the capital's waste heaps, many of them press-ganged into what advocates say is one of the world's most hazardous forms of labour. (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)
A child scavenger carries a bag at a rubbish dump in Phnom Penh. Cambodia's growing demand for recyclables -- from bottles and cans to cardboard -- has seen a sharp rise in the number of child scavengers trawling through the capital's waste heaps, many of them press-ganged into what advocates say is one of the world's most hazardous forms of labour. (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)
A Cambodian scarvenger sit at a rubbish damp in Phnom Penh. Cambodia's growing demand for recyclables -- from bottles and cans to cardboard -- has seen a sharp rise in the number of child scavengers trawling through the capital's waste heaps, many of them press-ganged into what advocates say is one of the world's most hazardous forms of labour. (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)
A Cambodian scavenger rides on the back on a rubbish truck at a landfill in Phnom Penh. Cambodia's growing demand for recyclables -- from bottles and cans to cardboard -- has seen a sharp rise in the number of child scavengers trawling through the capital's waste heaps, many of them press-ganged into what advocates say is one of the world's most hazardous forms of labour (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)
hello, scenes like this are everywhere all over the world, not just in cambodia. in fact in the philipines, latin america, south america, thailand, vietnam, etc... so not special only to cambodia, however, cambodia should do something to end this kind of scavenging by its most vulnerable people. god bless.
ReplyDeleteWHO YOU ARE ? you are TUM-POAING SNANG RUSSEY ?
ReplyDeleteTrue, and if these kid doesn't like school, at least they got some thing to do, instead of getting into gangs and drugs like they do in Long Beach.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, we need to make our school more fun to attract them to the school. Right now, Khmer is not interested in westerner format of learning. It doesn't fit, and it will not work.
Gentleman
ReplyDeleteAs a buddhist, this illustrates that Heaven and Hell in Cambodia under CPP, rotting corruption governing system.
The poors are screaming for that, social groups are frustrating about it, the government of crony is ignoring it,BUT where is our King over the kingdom of heaven and big HELL???
Our monarchy is bound by our constitution agreed by our nation and international communities. How much longer does it take to implement it???.
Please stop cheating our BUDDHISM, but apply it for our wisdom.
Neang SA
Nope, that is not what the IRI survey indicated, Ah Jkout (4:02). Stop fantasizing, will ya?
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