To enable young French people to understand the everyday life of young Cambodians, we spoke with 6 kids "our" school of Sre Ambel.
All class 5 (corresponding to CM2 French but there is also a sixth class in primary school)
Betting girl 14 years Phi boy 15 years
Chhuk girl 16 years Phek boy, 13 years
Choeun girl 13 years Chun boy, 15 years
Age is indicative because in some families are beginning to count the design. We can also start from 1, the day of birth (0 years old but he is in its first year). Lots of people do not know their date of birth.
Questions
When leave hours you wake up?
6:00
What time do you leave home?
6:30
At what time school starts?
7:00
At what time will you at home?
10:30 to 11:00
What do you enjoy most at school?
View
What material do you prefer?
The Khmer
How do you go to school?
Walk. (30 minutes for 2 or 3 km
Do you have books?
Yes, 4
Do you have books?
Yes, 4
What kind of house do you have?
wooden stilts.
How many people live in the home?
8 / 6 / 5 / 6 / 8 / 4
Do you play?
Yes, girls bungee (elastic consisting of hundreds of small rubber bands).
Where do you sleep?
On a mat all in the same room. Under a mosquito net.
What do you eat?
Rice with fish, chicken, spices .
Who made to eat?
Mom
What time do you eat?
Before you go to school at noon and at 17:00
When not at school, what do you do?
Assist family
you know Phnom Penh? (The Capital of Cambodia)
5 no, 1 yes.
NB: they know that it is the capital, but have never been there except 1, Phnom Penh is about 100km from home.
Do you know of other towns in your province?
Not
Are you already gone to the seaside? (qq km distant but otherwise inaccessible by boat) Not
Where are you now when you walk?
View of the family in the neighborhood we stay in the district of Sre Ambel.
What job do you want do in the future?
employee - worker in the large sugar refinery located in the village.
Would you get married?
All : yes
How many children do you want?
Girls: 2 / male: 3, 4, 2
NB: there is no so long ago, families were 5 to 8 children, as shown in the previous question.
Where do you live your adult life?
ALL : Here in the village.
Our comments on those answers surprisingly quiet:
It must be pointed out that there is still no electricity in the village. The poles are ready for a long time but there is still no call. And the night falls early. The village children have neither television (a device sometimes works an hour or two with some sort of generator made from an engine must still have money to buy the fuel needed ... ) or computer course, or anything that could show them a different world than their own. One family had a radio when we went there, but only received a wavelength, and again, it takes money to buy batteries.
Several things struck us:
- These children seem perfectly happy. Somehow does not have put away for many disappointments! These children are not going to make a crisis nerves if the PS2 is down ...
- The other thing that struck me is that they know nothing when compared to a child with TV, Internet and 6 hours of class per day ...
... hence they can not have dreams like "become a revered actress, a gold medal in swimming," because it is a life they do not even imagine. Even become a firefighter, has no meaning for them. I tried to offer them, "police officer, soldier ,..." things they know.
- It seems that the life they imagine, it is the same as that of their parents!
And yet ... not .
Their parents fought to operate a hectare of rice and feed 6 children.
them, what they want is to become workers (you should know that when the plant operates, it is closer to 60 hours as 35).
They naively believe that the factory will bring them (We know very well that it is false and that a boss will have no qualms about closing the plant if it suits).
What they want is security, it DOES NOT AFRAID tomorrow.
Their desire to have an employment and only two children, easier to feed than 6, is proof.
And when the Cambodians can not be afraid to fall sick
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