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COLLIE Rotary Club is lending a helping hand to local woman Halina Hebb who is consumed by the need to ease the poverty in Cambodia. Club members will run a huge garage sale in the Scout Hall on September 10 from 8am to 2pm. People who have items for sale are asked to phone John Vlasich on 0428 341 470 or 9734 1470 or Harry Wiggers on 9734 2704 to arrange delivery or collection.
Halina spoke to the club last week about her awakening to the need.
FOUR years ago Halina Hebb was staying in a five-star Cambodian hotel while her husband Des played golf in a pro-am event on a manicured tourist golf course.
The word “manicured” was appropriate, the grass was trimmed with nail scissors, Halina said.
Before arriving she knew nothing about the country except there were famous temples at Angkor Wat and that “Angelina Jolie had made a movie there with rocks falling all over the place”, she said.
“At the hotel two girls asked me if I wanted to visit an orphanage so I grabbed some soap and fruit (as gifts) and went with them.”
What she saw en route shattered her. “Absolute despair — many kids on the way to the orphanage were naked — the conditions were dire.
“I vowed I would never go back with so little again and that’s how my fund-raising began.”
Cambodia was once known as “the Land of Paradise” but is now one of the world’s most poverty-stricken countries.
Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge seized control in April 1975 and more than two million people were killed in the next four years.
All of the country’s intellectuals and educated people were targets. When the starvation, torture and blood-letting began, Cambodia (which the Khmer Rouge renamed Kampuchea) had 4000 trained doctors. Only 40 survived.
7 comments:
All tourists should learn history of Cambodia, and especially if the tourist from Thailand, they learned from the Thai side which is lier.
AH HUN SEN care more about his backyard and his front house then what the hell is going on in Cambodia!
Does Obama needs the Wall street to tell him that the U.S's economic is not doing well? Does Obama needed to be told that there are homeless on the street and billion of dollars being cut from public assistance program? You got my point. The government knows what is going on, but how much can they do with limited resource? Look at our GDP. Tell me which Cambodian government and leader really took care of Cambodians well in this past 500 years?
I can contest to Ms. Halena Hebb's story.
I have recently return from Cambodia for my vacation.
While touring Angkor Wat, I saw a handful of workers cutting grass, using what appears to be a scissor like trimming tools. There were no electric tools such as weed whackers or lawnmower. Just there bare hands.
I also wanted to point out that; while vacationing in Cambodia, my effort in an attempt to log in to KI Media were unsuccessful.
It was completely shut down.
Well,if the current government can not help and assisted Cambodian people out. At least, leave their land and properties along.Stop leasing and selling our land,land of our ancestry land .What good is a job that can not even support themselves? Step a side, we don't want him among the 500 year ruler that never take care of our people.It's about time to let other lead and be a leader of this country just like around the world.Same ideal and same person for 35 years already,time to share,just like other.
LONG LIVE SAMDACH MOHA DECHO HUN SEN 2099!!!
What would you all do when you have somebody like "ah" Sihanoukist P. from Long Beach that wants to baby/pamper/sing KI-Media to sleep with all of his so-called Khmer oldies...and yet simultaneously being "ah" Hun Sen's supporter by proxy...What would you all do???
Ladies and Gentlemen, "Ah" P. from long beach is one of KI-Media's team member!!!
Can you all believe that???
Ah Hun Sen has no trouble penetrating something like KI-Media by just using something like "Ah" sihanoukist P. from long Beach!!!
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