Original report from Phnom Penh
01 October 2009
Song Pro is a widow from the Pnorng ethnic group. She lives in Mondulkiri province, where she has watched all five of her children drop out of school, none of them reaching beyond the fourth grade.
Most of them now are fully grown, young men and women without jobs, a source of much regret to their mother.
“If you dropped out of school, how is your future?” she asked recently. “My children say, ‘What should I do, Mother? It is because we are poor, so let chance decides.’”
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