By SARA ROSS
THE PACKET AND TIMES
The average income in Cambodia is just $1 a day, making education essential to escaping poverty.
A strong desire to change the lives of poverty-stricken children led Orillia's Kristiana Edmar to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
"Here, we take education so for granted and there, they are hungering for it," she said. "Here, the government will help you, or there are so many other options, but their education is all they have."
The 20-year-old spent eight months in Cambodia teaching at the North Country Baptist Children's Home, which was opened by local pastor Len Crow in 2007.
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