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It was initiated by one professor. Know him? he is in the picture too. The time I was there he taught in many private universities. He gathered students and raised money to buy some study materials such as books, pencils, erasers and rulers etc. for the orphans, street children and children in the communities. We headed to one orphanage center in the city ( forgot the name) and gave those stuffs to them. We were excited to do so and also happy to meet them. After that we continued to one local area to meet local people and children down there. When we reached there, it was also almost time for lunch. “Let’s prepare, don’t we?” Some of us cooked the rice, some ” slor”, some were responsible to fine lotus or banana leaf and so on. We really had typical Khmer food. So yummy!!!

After lunch time, we got to do something in the community. We made small group and taught those children about sanitation, gave them encouragement for their future life, asked them what they wanted to be and tell them the way to reach there. We told them not to quit school and dared to talk to their parents if their parents need them to do something during the school time. We tried to attach ourselves to them just to let them know that they are not alone, we are with them.

Let look at another part of the world. How many big problems is the world encountering? terrorism? poverty? global warming? the rising of oil price? or anything else? I think that ” unequal opportunity” should be taken into consideration. Everyone should have accessed to basic opportunity to support their basic life such as the access of human rights, jobs, good state’s education system joys and dignity in the society. These things should be guaranteed by the states or the local governments. However, we should not ignore the fact that in transitional society, poverty or unequal opportunity is a normal phenomenon, especially in globalization world which required competition among every individuals. Now if a poor country lives in global market, every individual in that society has to compete with each other for advantages. Let imagine if you cannot get access to equal opportunity like others, you will be exploited by elite groups unless you got an opportunity to fight back. if you don’t have that opportunity, what will you do? Think about it!

Smile is always the beauty of life!