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While in Mondulkiri, we traveled to the Busra Waterfalls - about twenty kilometers from the town of Sen Monorom. Here I met an ethnic minority family and I am determined to find a way for these children to attend school, which they presently cannot do.
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After we distrubuted the supplies to the kids at our school, our guide, Meng Dy, suggested we visit the Busra Waterfall which is about 20 kilometers from Sen Monorom.  The road was not quite an interstate highway.
It took us more than an hour on this road to travel about 20 kilometers to the Busra Waterfall.
We came across this man and his oxen on our way to the Busra Waterfall.  This is the current mode of transportation for many of the ethnic minority people of Mondulkiri.
These roads are impassible during the rainy season.
This is the upper Busra falls.  It is a very beautiful and peaceful sight.
The lower Busra falls plunges over two hundred feet into a canyon below.
While at the falls, we encountered this ethnic minority family.  The mother had just given the infant a bath in the lake beneath the upper falls.  I couldn't help but notice the sad expressions on the two girls' faces; especially on the younger girl's face.  The girls are her nieces.
Our guide had difficulty talking to these people who are Hill Tribe people and speak a different dialect than regular Khmer.  He was, however, able to convey to them that I wanted the little girl to stand by Joy for a picture.  I continue to wonder what she was thinking and what caused that sad expression.  When I came home, I kept looking at this little girl and I couldn't get her out of my mind.  I decided I must try to do something to put a smile on her face and to learn more about her and her family.
I emailed our English teacher, Vansoeurn, at our school and asked him if he could go to the waterfall area and find these girls.  I wanted to be able to offer them an overnight trip into Sen Monorom where they could have a bath, eat at a restaurant, and buy some new clothes and personal items.  He did, indeed, go to the waterfall and found them and told them he would be back to take them into town.  They didn't want to go alone so their families came along also - eight persons altogether.  This photo was taken near their village just before Vansoeurn brought them into town.  The taller girl is Seagn Room - she is fourteen; the shorter girl is Sray Khaang - she is thirteen.  Neither are able to go to school as there is no school in their village.
After we distrubuted the supplies to the kids at our school, our guide, Meng Dy, suggested we visit the Busra Waterfall which is about 20 kilometers from Sen Monorom. The road was not quite an interstate highway.
After we distrubuted the supplies to the kids at our school, our guide, Meng Dy, suggested we visit the Busra Waterfall which is about 20 kilometers from Sen Monorom.  The road was not quite an interstate highway.
After we distrubuted the supplies to the kids at our school, our guide, Meng Dy, suggested we visit the Busra Waterfall which is about 20 kilometers from Sen Monorom. The road was not quite an interstate highway.
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