We were working at the local prison, building interview rooms so that prisoners could be interviewed by their solicitors. It had been arranged by the Prison Fellowship (a Christian organisation). They were trying to make an impact in the prisons, and from what I could see, they were succeeding.
It was pretty hard work, and in pretty hot weather: we were working with the inmates who were really friendly and not threatening at all.
In the afternoon we went and helped paint the houses previous teams built. They were pretty tiny in our terms, but to them it was amazing. It was great to see the families that had moved in taking care of what they had.
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Matthew Cook
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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