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A much different reality than our own
In Cambodia, extreme poverty is a reality not a statistic, yet statistics help tell the story. The United Nations declares Cambodia as the eighth least developed nation in the world, where nearly 80 percent of the people live on $2 a day, and nearly a third live on one dollar a day. One out of every six children die before age six, while the average Cambodian is nineteen years old and female.
Most adults were killed during the past wars, where at one time, the ultra-conservative communist regime specifically targeted all creative, educated, and free thinking people for destruction. Today, forty percent of the population is under fifteen years of age. Cambodia is a nation of poor, uneducated, malnourished, and sickly children, and as one would expect, these same children are having children of their own at an alarming rate.
Hot, humid, tropical, and intensely polluted, mosquito-born dengue fever remains a threat, E. coli bacteria and lead contaminate the brackish water supply. Nightmares of war, Pol Pot, and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge still linger. Land mines and unexploded bombs dropped during the Vietnam War still litter fields surrounding farming communities where children gather wood and play. By some estimates, more than 3 million Cambodians were slaughtered or died of starvation or illness during the recent wars. Still even today, hundreds more are killed or maimed as they wander into seemingly harmless areas holding deadly devices just below the surface.
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