It's five in the morning, well before the dawn. A family who live across from the Poum Steung school come and start making a fire on this newly built cray-made stoves. It's for the breakfast for the children. At Poum Steung, morning students and afternoon students alternate every now and then so everyone can get to have breakfast.
at 7AM children start showing up, once they put their bags and notebooks in their desks they would run to their 'cafeteria' and line up with plates in their hands and spoons in their mouths.
Cambodian Rice is bought and donated by Australia, and there is a couple of cans of sardine, little veggy from the garden.
as the morning sun start shining on them, the children enjoy their meals. usually i get all the attention from the kids but this time with food in front of their eyes, they leave me alone. the way they eat just tells me that they don't get to eat nearly as often, or as much as we eat.
there aren't even enough tables and chairs, so some of them just sit on the ground to eat. it doesn't matter, it's food and it's delicious. having been fed the first energy of the day, some kids run back for the second plates, others start playing before the class starts, and some assigned students sweep and clean the class rooms and the field. another difficult and beautiful day at Poum Steung is about to begin.
It's five in the morning, well before the dawn. A family who live across from the Poum Steung school come and start making a fire on this newly built cray-made stoves. It's for the breakfast for the children. At Poum Steung, morning students and afternoon students alternate every now and then so everyone can get to have breakfast.
at 7AM children start showing up, once they put their bags and notebooks in their desks they would run to their 'cafeteria' and line up with plates in their hands and spoons in their mouths.
Cambodian Rice is bought and donated by Australia, and there is a couple of cans of sardine, little veggy from the garden.
as the morning sun start shining on them, the children enjoy their meals. usually i get all the attention from the kids but this time with food in front of their eyes, they leave me alone. the way they eat just tells me that they don't get to eat nearly as often, or as much as we eat.
there aren't even enough tables and chairs, so some of them just sit on the ground to eat. it doesn't matter, it's food and it's delicious. having been fed the first energy of the day, some kids run back for the second plates, others start playing before the class starts, and some assigned students sweep and clean the class rooms and the field. another difficult and beautiful day at Poum Steung is about to begin.
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