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Love…actually

I don’t feel hopeless about intimate, romantic love when Valentine’s Day rolls around. It’s fun to do something silly like my sister and I do to celebrate. We usually order Thai food and watch cringey shark movies. I definitely think that love should always be celebrated and expressed, not just on this day. I often …

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From Grief to Giving: The Story of a Father’s Legacy

At 17 years old I became the family leader, as my father had passed away in 1997. Leaving me to look after my mother and 6 siblings. Before my father died my parents were assigned by state government to take care of a community with more than a 1,000 community members between 1979 and 1985. At that time, Cambodians leftover from khmer Rogue regime is about 6,000,000 persons only.
When I was a child and at school, civil war remained in my community and people were being killed and injured. One day a former government soldier was going to die and he held my hand and asked me to promise to take care of his children. He then died next to me. I was so young, I asked myself why was I given this job.

To this day I continue to dedicate my life’s work to supporting these communities by improving the livelihoods of families and the social infrastructure of these communities and prevent youth from falling victim to sex traffickers.

My Village Life

My name is Rin Veasna, I was born in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia. I grow up in a small village and it was not easy for my family, as it was very challenging because we were very poor. It was difficult to get education and food. When I was 18 years old, I found Sao Sary Foundation and they were able to support me with accommodation and education. I learnt many skills to get a job and now 10 years later I have a successful job as General Manager. I owe my life to Sao Sary Foundation and I can now support my family in my home village.

Brushery on Grand

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Hoksan AN

I am Hoksan AN, I am really lucky that I was born and to grow up in Prek Toal located in Battambang province in Cambodia, with a beautiful and quiet floating village with our floating house, where is my life skills helped me to gain a tertiary education also working in nearby Siem Reap.

My parents and their parents were born in the floating village (Prek Toal). They are got married during the Polpot genocide.

There are 8 people in my family and I have five sisters. My two older sisters died during the Polpot genocide, so now I have only one older sister and two young sisters. My family is not rich and we have only fishing to support our life.

My village (Prek Toal) is a floating village. We have a dry season and a wet season for 6 months each. During dry season, the villager’s fish around the side of the Tonle Sap lake. In the middle the water is low – some places is 1 m, 2m and 3m deep. Some of them grow vegetables for eating and for sale. In the wet season, the water is very high and the villagers go fishing inside the forests, rivers, lakes…not in the middle of the Tonle Sap lake.

Porndemic

There is a documentary out there titled ‘Porndemic’ which looks at the pornography industry and the HIV outbreak in the 1990’s. This blog post isn’t about HIV/AIDS but about liberation and oppression with the rise of porn around the world, sex education and how sex is viewed within the space; with how this translates into …

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Broken to be Beautiful

Being a survivor of child sexual abuse, I lapped up the attention of a man who offered the world but delivered abuse, I had to navigate my way through 15 years of destructive and abusive behaviours including; control, manipulation and sexual. Even after the separation, he tried to control me and our 4 children. Once remarried the kids felt safe enough to disclose that when they went back to him, he was sexually abusing them. after a police investigation, he went to prison and Simon adopted my kids. We now have healed and run a charity on the GC

Collaboration not Competition

An Innovation, Technology & Design Summit recently took place in Sydney, with the goal of businesses sharing their efforts and contributions towards sustainability. A lot came out of the many sessions which took place with a range of topics including fashion, technology, medicine and health care, food, packaging, transport, circularity and manufacturing. Understanding further about …

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