Kenyan Volunteer Asked to Show $1,000 USD at Phnom Penh Airport or She Can't Enter Cambodia

violet · Post by **violet** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:16 pm

I think it's probably some misguided sense of what's right and wrong on my part.

Edited in an attempt to explain... People are saying to friends back home ...oh, yah... I'm off to volunteer in Cambodia, don't you know.

Oiiih Cambodia?! How brave and exciting for you. I hear people trafficking is quite the issue there.

Yah, we'll probably have to stamp people's tickets when we show a movie about that.

And as PN says below.... There's a lot of people who could use a job

prahocalypse now · Post by **prahocalypse now** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:19 pm

violet wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:10 pm I mean having people come from overseas to volunteer in the cinema should be stamped out. Am I the only one who finds that bizarre?

No.

In my opinion, any barang who staffs their business in Cambodia with foreign volunteers instead of paying locals is as tight as a nun's cunt.

angkorjohn · Post by **angkorjohn** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:26 pm

gotta disagree with you Violet. I've met plenty of guys who did the workaway. none of them suggested they were doing anything worthy, what many did do was see the world putting in 15-20 hours a week on a range of businesses for free board and lodgings from minding a cinema to helping out on a farm. I think it's a great idea if people don't have a lot of money. better than sitting in your underpants playing a recorder begging for change to continue your holiday or getting into Angkor Wat.

SO yes I think you are confused Violet...maybe you are the kind who complains about entitled Millenials wanting it all for free and then seeing kids doing things like this triggers you as well.

It upset a lotta people on the desert island thread last week. If someone wants to experience that by working for board and lodgings for a set amount of hours then all is good. Sure it helps the business owner out a lot but if that is their model and, to use the flicks as an example, on the workaway it lists exactly what is expected. nobody is forcing these kids to do it they go in knowing what to expect. As i understand if they dont like it then they can scoot off the next day with no notice leaving the flicks potentially short staffed which is the risk of the model.

If it gives kids who aint from wealthy backgrounds the means to see the world without begging for handouts then i am all for it.

violet · Post by **violet** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:31 pm

Yeah. I'm open to insight as to why I feel this way about it. No, I'm not a person who complains easily about millennials. I actually relate to a lot of their behaviours and thought processes

bvanfossen · Post by **bvanfossen** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:37 pm

angkorjohn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:26 pm gotta disagree with you Violet. I've met plenty of guys who did the workaway. none of them suggested they were doing anything worthy, what many did do was see the world putting in 15-20 hours a week on a range of businesses for free board and lodgings from minding a cinema to helping out on a farm. I think it's a great idea if people don't have a lot of money. better than sitting in your underpants playing a recorder begging for change to continue your holiday or getting into Angkor Wat.

SO yes I think you are confused Violet...maybe you are the kind who complains about entitled Millenials wanting it all for free and then seeing kids doing things like this triggers you as well.

It upset a lotta people on the desert island thread last week. If someone wants to experience that by working for board and lodgings for a set amount of hours then all is good. Sure it helps the business owner out a lot but if that is their model and, to use the flicks as an example, on the workaway it lists exactly what is expected. nobody is forcing these kids to do it they go in knowing what to expect. As i understand if they dont like it then they can scoot off the next day with no notice leaving the flicks potentially short staffed which is the risk of the model.

If it gives kids who aint from wealthy backgrounds the means to see the world without begging for handouts then i am all for it.

After reading the OP I was thinking the same as V and also found it strange.

After reading your post though I now see your pov. it's good for ppl with low funds to experience the world. I'm glad my opinion doesn't matter as I now have mixed opinions!

angkorjohn · Post by **angkorjohn** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:42 pm

violet wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:31 pm Yeah. I'm open to insight as to why I feel this way about it. No, I'm not a person who complains easily about millennials. I actually relate to a lot of their behaviours and thought processes

Well I apologize for casting aspersions on the reason this triggered you. I guess I just summarize from what I often see as complaints on this subject (not from you per se).

At the end of the day it is an open contract, it ain't voluntourism going to some school to see the kids for a week or look at poor brown people. It is a job and it usually works for both parties. They get a couple of meals and a room in the centre of PP for 2-3 weeks for 15-20 hours work. Saving them say $10 a day maybe more. Flicks gets people who can talk to the expat/western guests about the movies (which lets face it your average khmer could not) without a worry of work-permits or foreign staff quota's. Nobody, in this case is being exploited. If they don't like it they just leave.

Better than a bunch of begbacking idiots who squat around a whole table nursing a can of coke between them and their own brought in bottle of water just to use the wifi complaining they ain't got enough to go travel....

angkorjohn · Post by **angkorjohn** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:47 pm

[quote=bvanfossen post_id=264
After reading the OP I was thinking the same as V and also found it strange.

After reading your post though I now see your pov. it's good for ppl with low funds to experience the world. I'm glad my opinion doesn't matter as I now have mixed opinions!
[/quote]

ha ha,, well nothing wrong with an opinion as long as its informed. A few years back I occasionally used to go to eat at the old Empire on 130 and they had a similar model and you'd meet all sorts of guys form all sorts of backgrounds. I remember one young russian couple they were there a month, from some village on the edge of siberia or something and even though they had saved to travel they were not in a position to have saved as much as some. they travelled the world for 18 months through workaway. heard many similar stories but that one stuck.

AndyKK · Post by **AndyKK** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:39 pm

So the lady is in a bad situation not having the minimum specified amount of cash to enter the country! This law of having monies to support yourself is the same recommendations for countrys all over the world. $250 she only has for her stay? What happens if something goes wrong for her on the stay here for her, or she doesn't like the work? Why is the owner of the cinema, her employer offering the remainder $750! He will have the money returned soon as they walk out of the airport. Volunteering for a owner whom is taking all the profits? I could understand if it was 50/50! That is volunteer and let's say under privileged Khmer, giving them work experience, accommodation and training wages.
I also see nothing about giving to charity? There are plenty of good cause here to donate and help! Having a cinema for example, under privileged kids matinee with free drink and food would be nice.

shnoukieBRO · Post by **shnoukieBRO** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:52 pm

Cambodian immigration are not stupid. They have a huge problem with Black people entering their country with various alibis.The rest is history.

Yes, if She cannot sum up a basic $1000 then She is of course looking dodgy. Cambodia does not need any more penniless Africans they have to then deport, there are too many already.

AndyKK · Post by **AndyKK** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:58 pm

shnoukieBRO wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:52 pm Cambodian immigration are not stupid. They have a huge problem with Black people entering their country with various alibis.The rest is history.

Yes, if She cannot sum up a basic $1000 then She is of course looking dodgy. Cambodia does not need any more penniless Africans they have to then deport, there are too many already.

Don't believe this is anything to do with being black. This simply is to do with not having the funds to enter the country. LAW.

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