Koh Santepheap newspaper
13th March, 2009
Reported in English by Khmerization
A 90 years old lady from Kampot is struggling to care for her 60 years old disabled daughter due to old age and poverty.
90 year-old Ma Krem, who is from Chress village, Kampong Trach district in Kampot province, said that she and her crippled daughter survived only on the generosity of their neighbours.
The 90 year-old lady said that her husband died in 1983 and all her children, except one, died during the Pol Pot time. She added that her surviving daughter, who is very poor, is struggling to raise her children, let alone helping to feed her and her crippled daughter.
She said that her daughter, Soum Phan, who is also blind and deaf, was crippled since birth. After giving birth to Soum Phan, neighbours told her to abandon the baby but she refused by vowing that she will care for Soum Phan until the end of her life.
She said that in 1979, when the Khmer Rouge forced them to walk through minefields up the Dangrek Mountains, she carried Soum Phan in a basket at one end of the pole while she carried her belongings at another end of the pole. But she refused to abandon her, whereas many parents at that time have abandoned their babies because they can’t take the babies with them.
Neighbours said that the 90 year-old lady and her 60 year-old crippled daughter are living in real hardship. She is surviving on the generosity of neighbours who took pity on her and her daughter.
Through Koh Santepheap, she is appealing to generous people, local and overseas, foreigners as well as Cambodians, to help her and her daughter through to the new year.
Koh Santepheap can be contacted at: kohsantepheap@citylink.com.kh, or at: kohdaily@gmail.com .
19 comments:
So sad to see this picture. I'll support as I can.
Question-Just from my curiousity. My deep apology if this question may be inapropriated:
I had been through Khmer rouge, too but How were their living condition during khmer Rouge?
Their is a book to write. Please someone talk to her and provide the money that she need to continue her life. Where are you science people?
wtf does science have to do with this? she was born with a defect....
the pic looks like it been photoshop edited, but i i feel sorry for the mom.
why don't uuu ask madam hun's red cross for help.......uuuuu love them and keep voting for them...ask them for help...uuuuuuuu love yuon......
12:05 AM may be she not vote for YOUN that why ME KAHEANG doen't care a bout them two .. so sad .. I want to send money .. to help POOR Khmer people a gain ( WHICH I DID befor through Koh Santepheap) but I feel that Koh Santepheap are serve CCP party .. so I stop sending money .. but I feel bad for this kind of people .. SAD ..
Khmer canada
if u help , just help, don't think too much
Where is HUN SEN BUN RANY (Red Cross) in the case?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
scene like this should awake cambodia to reform our social services to help needy people like this. these are the really needy people that deserve assistance from gov't. nobody has to suffer inhumanely like this. it's about time for cambodia to wake up and start reforming our social service system so people like this can be helped. god bless cambodia.
It is a sad reality in Cambodia under Hun Sen. Imagine, when this 90 year-old is no longer in this world, how can her 60 year-old disabled daughter, who is blind and deaf, survive? The government, especially the Rd Cross under Bun Rany Hun Sen, should come to their aid. If not, they will die like animals. So sad.
2:40 AM LOL , YOU ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY .. AH YOUN LEECH..
I wonder how the 60 year old daughter was even able to survive the Khmer Rouge era. Not trying to sound cruel or harsh but I'd assume that the Khmer Rouge cadres would be very cruel and unforgiving by killing an individual with this type of deformity.
No actually, kr left this type of people alone. I have seen people with paralysis disability. Her father, brothers and sisters took turn taking food form the village's kitchen to feed her everyday and they didn't say or do anything. Those people were farmer before April of 1975. When you're poor or were formerly poor, you're safe with kr.
Buddhism: the Buddhists called it Bapkam.
Science: scientists are still searching in genetic reseach to find exactly what caused this birth defect.
She is not alone who was born with this disease, about 8 million people who're born with serious genetic birth defects in the world, just we didn't see or know about.
All in all bless her mother's heart. She is angel who lives on this earth and in heaven after she dies.
That's what will happened to you when you vote for Ah Scam Rainxy.
Dear All Khmer Patriots,
Red Ant informs Khmer Patriots at all level that in order to keep proper Border-marker, each border-markers of Thailand and Vietnam, Khmer Government must assisgn a general, or a commander to take care of it and have a meeting twice per year. THis is the way to keep our borders safe from those invadtions. We have alot Khmer General who just promoted by HUN SEN, and there are many many Commanders.
Just an idea from Red Ant.
It is a sad picture to see our old and disabled living in such a state. Bun Rany's Red Cross, why are you? And Hun Sen, where are your stolen millions?
Doesn't Ma Krem have a bank account? I want to help her.
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