They were some of the poorest people in the world with the biggest smiles. Cambodia is amazing and I'm going back as soon as possible.
Matthew Cook
There is still important building work for you to do at the New Happy Village project in 2010. Families have been moved out of their old shacks on the polluted
Cambodians are a broken people: between 1976 and 1979 Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge killed around 2 million Cambodians, or 20% of the population. But his regime’s murderous influence had another influence: families were split up and put in re-education camps. You were taught to trust nobody but the state itself.
Three decades later and the people of Cambodia still live in the shadow of this monstrous message – there is a whole generation that does not know how to bring up a family properly or trust others.
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