Um Sokhon and Kong Chamreurn have six children. They’ve managed to afford five in school, and would love to send all of them! They’ve had to borrow over $1,300 USD to do this, and to buy fishing equipment to feed everyone....
The Yem family are currently living in a tiny house which belongs to Yoem’s sister, meaning they sadly haven’t a house to call their own....
Ly Chan is divorced - putting her in a very difficult position. She has three sons; two live with her and the third is married with his own family....
Living and working as a cook at the SALT School, Sem Narin hopes to one day own her own hair salon. Her husband is a teacher, and together they owe almost $500 USD in debt....
Beaw Makara is only 17 years old and is now responsible for caring for his six cousins. Their parents abandoned them, leaving the seven children with Ngoun Sok, his grandmother, who is recently deceased....
Sok Sareourn and her husband, Vorn Vanny, dream of moving out of the crowded slum near the river they currently occupy....
Industrious Meaern Sarun lives with his wife, Mai Porn, and their three children along a muddy road east of SALT School....
Sien Gun Som, his wife, Sry Tuen and their four children live in a small shack just north of the SALT School, in a community of three families at the bottom of a ravine....