Cambodia

This week in Economics we started watching a documentary. The documentary is called "Small Voices" and is about Cambodian street children. This documentary is about homeless children who have to work and beg on the streets to survive. These children have no choices like we do here in the United States. Here we have free public schooling, where these children live their public schooling is also free but since the teachers are so poor the students must pay the teachers 50 cents per class. If the student does not pay the 50 cents then he or she will not get any grades or proof that they had attended school. The children here wish that they could go to school and try to turn their lives around unlike the children here in the U.S. that gripe and complain constantly about going to school. The worst part of the matter is what the children have to fear, kidnappers. The street children are often kidnapped and forced into the underground sex slavery ring. We have not finished watching the movie but it is very sad and I am very grateful for the things I am allowed to do and the things I have.