On Jul 18, 5:47 am, ឌើលុច្ស អៀម <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
How far do you think those peasant kids would be able to go to school
even when there is equal opportunity?
> 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.
>
Even in America, poor people cannot go thus far. A few can with some
grants and family sacrifice. Yet, they still can't go far.
> 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.
>
The country itself survives with donations from other countries. How
can they have the money to help their people individually?
> 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.
>
Do you expect them to do it for free?
> 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.
>
No, Cambodians need more than that. They truely need to change their
own culture, which has limited to growth for decades. They concentrate
mostly on their own individual gain, instead of developing for the
interest of the nation as the whole.
> 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.
>
Second, Cambodians need to be independent. They must free themselves
from influence of others including those Cambodians who live overseas.
> 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.
>
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