I'm already infamously reknown for posting streams of pictures on my blog.. Well this is gonna be no less.
Highlights:
delayed arrival
allucination on the road
ops.. they forgot you were coming
the temples
the boat broke down
missing the bus that broke down
waiting to board flight due to local photoshoot
a 10m swanky limousine to go.. well nowhere
the jelly fishes...
sunshine
the snake house! aka a russian serial killer freak collection
Cambodia: probably a place you will only go once in your life.
Beautiful, dark, poor, full of controversies.
I came back with 2 main thoughts/questions
The community should adopt a cambodian baby.
Should people be allowed to buy Gucci collars for their pets when there are babies in the world which can't afford to eat?
yes I know all charities and NGOs are working on it.. but still shouldn't Gucci be forbidden to produce such stupid products and people arrested for purchasing them, or all the money sent to poor people?
Today it was releaved that the quest to abolish world poverty by 2015 is not really gonna happen as countries retrieved their pledges and the number of people in need actually increased.
Anyway... back to the pics of the trip..
K'Naan America feat. Mos Def
7 years ago
1 comment:
I can't believe it's YOU saying this!!!! I am so proud... sniff, sniff...!
Yes it is immoral that we have shops selling Gucci dog collars, while people go hungry. It is also immoral that we have 9,000 babies and children dying every day from preventable diseases. It is immoral that more money is spent in the US every year on beauty products than all combined overseas aid packages. And yes, we are not going to reach ANY of the Millenium Development Goals - unless, that is, we start playing with the way we collect data, something the World Bank has done before.
BUT... If you want to talk more about this, let's sit down and talk. But you have to shed many of your preconceptions, start "thinking outside the box", as you said earlier on. Because the solution is not and should not be for each of us to have a Cambodian child under our roof. Cambodian children should live where they belong, with their mothers and fathers, in healthy, prosperous communities in their country.
This is what we need to work towards.
End of the mini-lecture...
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