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The Khmer New Year celebrations last three days… So I’ll wish you a happy New Year (of the rabbit -or is the hare?) on the first day… Pictures from the Close to the Edge project… which hasn’t moved one inch further over the last months…

I just updated my website with a story called Cambodia Two Sides of the River, related to both the Close to the Edge project and the Koh Pich stampede. Today is National Mourning Day in Cambodia.

Water Festival and Close to the Edge related issues on this side of the river. Just noticed: in all three pictures there is someone looking at me. Doesn’t happen often. Guess I was a bit tired today… Meanwhile I left town already, far from the maddening crowds. Happily Kepping along. I’ll be back tuesday…

More for Close to the Edge at Chroy Changva during Water Festival.

More on yesterday and the Water Festival related to the Close to the Edge project.

Water Festival is beginning to get into gear: time to pick up a little on the Vulnerable Situations project. Opportunities to make some money but also the vulnerabilities increase for numerous street children in Phnom Penh during the massive influx of people from the provinces during the Water Festival.

There was a Kentucky Fried Chicken concert at Koh Pich on saturday evening: a few singers with punkish attributes, sloppy and very blonde dancers, the public sitting on their motorbikes. And presenters praising the NEW way of eating: “Before I was skinny and unhappy, now I eat mayonnaise with my KFC and I gained weight, [...]