Besides helping bring hip hop culture to Cambodia, Tiny Toones and its founder Tuy Sobil (left), better known as Kay Kay, have won accolades for helping drug addicts and poor street kids transform their lives. -- PHOTO: AFPAFP
PHNOM PENH - A SLIM boy with curly hair spins on his head to hip hop music at a house down a crowded and dusty road in the Cambodian capital.
The dancer, 11-year-old Soeurn Nhanh, says he had a hopeless existence as a shoeshine boy until he discovered Cambodia's first and only breakdancing and hip hop school. 'When I grow up, I want to be a breakdancing teacher and earn money to support myself and my family,' he says, grinning.
Established a few years ago by a former US gang member deported after being convicted of armed robbery, the Tiny Toones centre also teaches disc jockey skills and rapping to nearly 400 children.
Besides helping bring hip hop culture to Cambodia, Tiny Toones and its founder Tuy Sobil, better known as Kay Kay, have won accolades for helping drug addicts and poor street kids transform their lives.
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