Piseth is 11 years old, and he’s been attending Hagar’s Community Learning Centre (CLC) for three years now. Piseth’s family comes from a low-income area on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Before he came to CLC, he went to a school close to his home province, but his...
Bora has been living with his foster family since November 2015, with three other boys. He is well behaved, and he works hard. Bora always does his daily chores, and he takes care of the pig that the family are raising. Bora will take his national exam in August of...
Priya is the eldest of seven children. She loves her family, but at the age of 14, her parents sold her to be married to a much older man who abused her daily. Priya wanted to return to her parents’ home but her parents wouldn’t hear of it as it is culturally...
Reuniting a family. Bahawuddin was born into a big family. He has seven brothers and sisters, his father, his mother, and his father’s second wife. When Bahawuddin was very young, his mother ran away, and took his oldest sister and 11 year-old brother with her. He was...
Finding hope again. Hoa is 27 years old, she’s a bridal make-up specialist and a hairstylist in training. Hoa loves her family, and she’s great at her job. When Hoa was a teenager, both of her parents suffered debilitating health challenges that prevented them from...
Two sisters find justice. Makara is seven, and her big sister Sopheak is nine. They live in a rural province in Cambodia with their grandmother, who they moved in with a couple of years ago when their parents moved away. In the months that followed their move, both...
