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Sovanna's Story
Sovanna is
fourteen years old and ambitious. Every day for the past
year she has cycled the thirty minute journey from her home
to the Sunshine Centre, where she has the chance to study
and fulfill her dreams of being a Math teacher.
Phnom Penh is a
dusty city in the dry season, and the traffic is chaotic and
dangerous. When it rains, the streets flood, so Sovanna asks
her father to give her a ride. Sovanna's father works as a moto-taxi
driver - motorbike taxis are the main form of getting about
in Cambodia, where there is no public transport system.
Sovanna's mother works as a nanny at the
Sunshine Centre.
Sovanna's hobbies
are reading, studying, and playing. However before coming to
the Sunshine Centre Sovanna had no time for these hobbies. Every spare
moment was taken up helping her aunts to cook and sell food
on the streets.
Now Sovanna
spends every weekday at the Sunshine Centre, where she gets
two meals a day, a school uniform, and most importantly
for Sovanna, the chance to study and play. The Sunshine
Centre pays for Sovanna and eighty other children to go to
the local Government school.
After her
mornings working hard at school, Sovanna likes to relax and
play with her friends at the Sunshine Centre. In the afternoons,
Sovanna enjoys some quiet time with her friends doing her
homework and reading.
*all names in
the story have been changed to fictitious names to project
the identities of the children
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