Lauk Chhim, There are steps to building wealth as well as building human capital. First, an equal opportunity must be created for all Khmer children to go to school. That opportunity must eventually provide a return on investment for poor peasants to send their children to go to school while forgoing additional helping hands in the rice paddy.
Even in the United States, schools provide free lunch during Winter and Summer sessions as the government knows that some families cannot afford balanced meals for their children. Free breakfast and lunch along with airconditioned room draw a high attendance, but not perfect due to other circumstances. Average Cambodians cannot afford to lose extra helping hands that possibly can gather just enough food for the day. It would be a major burden to send children to school and pack food for them as well. Lets take it a knotch further. Even professional nurses and doctors in Cambodia are facing a similar vicious cycle when they need to upgrade their skill. When the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, a teaching hospital, brings in doctors and nurses from distance provinces for training, they need to pay for travel, shelter, meal and salary cost. Otherwise, those professionals cannot afford an upgrade to their career as trainings take away time from family and opportunity to make a living. In order for Cambodia to build sufficient human capital to compete with other ASEAN countries, the RGC must not only provide affordable quality education, but also need to assist its citizen in obtaining the education by relieving them from their daily hardship. Otherwise, only the wealthy will continue to thrive and the have-nots will further dive to the abysmal of economic spectrum. In order to cross the road, there got to be a place of destination (ie. jobs). Along the passage, their must be traffic lights/signs to protect the pedestrians to provide law and order. If none exist, we need cops to direct traffic. Cambodia is not there yet. She is trying, but progress is slow. Graduates of university have no jobs waiting for them. Teachers and professors are taking bribe from students/parents as their salary is miniscule. Besides, the government does not pay on time. Therefore, the teachers need to subsidize their incomes via other means. When one tries to fix the broken system, we tend to point fingers at one another; thereby increasing personal tensions which leads to violence. This must stop. We are all Khmers regardless of race and ethnic background. Those who live in Cambodia must provide allegiance to Cambodia. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > New Faces of Cambodian Graduates at Norton University in Phnom Penh > > It is remarkable that those who have a chance to study and graduate from a > better school in Cambodia are mostly of mixed race Cambodian children. > Please click this link. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp8a_oGytsY > > Khmer students from the country sides should try harder to get higher > education to balance things out. Otherwise they will not have a chance to > compete. Some types of programs should be available for poor and talented > students to help them advance in formal education. > > > Timothychhim.blogspot.com <http://timothychhim.blogspot.com/> > http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=timothy+chhim&aq=f > > ------------------------------ > *A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps!<http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222585087x1201462804/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=JulystepsfooterNO62> > * > > > > -- បើផលដែលកើតចេញពីបុណ្យរបស់ខ្ញុំមានមែន សូមឱ្យខ្ញុំឆាប់មកកើតនៅកម្ពុជាទៀត --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
