Hard Grunt for Many Women in Cambodia
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Hard Grunt for Many Women in Cambodia
Economy not working for many women in Cambodia
Published 22 January 2019
(Phnom Penh Post/ANN) -- Sophoan is a domestic worker mother of three. She recently gave birth to a healthy third child. Sophoan is the main income earner in her family – her husband works as a motodop but he can only contribute $50 per month.
Domestic work is physically straining, so towards the end of her pregnancy Sophoan was under unbearable pain, causing potential harm to her baby. She stopped working at eight months under advice from her mother.
But without Sophoan’s income she was unable to pay for essential food, housing or medical costs. Sophoan decided to move in with her mother, also a domestic worker, and ask for her mother’s support.
Aware that Sophoan was unable to work and had no savings, her mother took a loan from her employer to pay for Sophoan’s birth costs at a hospital in Phnom Penh.
Shortly before the delivery her mother was injured at work and was unable to work for a few months while she recovered.
After Sophoan delivered her baby, she had to care for her injured mother, a newborn child and pay the loan.
With these demands, Sophoan felt pressure to go back to work prematurely, not knowing how or who would care for her newborn child and her mother. But the longer she stayed out of work, the more the entire family fell into poverty.
Stories like Sophoan’s happen every day in Cambodia.
https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/economy- ... ewsnetwork
Published 22 January 2019
(Phnom Penh Post/ANN) -- Sophoan is a domestic worker mother of three. She recently gave birth to a healthy third child. Sophoan is the main income earner in her family – her husband works as a motodop but he can only contribute $50 per month.
Domestic work is physically straining, so towards the end of her pregnancy Sophoan was under unbearable pain, causing potential harm to her baby. She stopped working at eight months under advice from her mother.
But without Sophoan’s income she was unable to pay for essential food, housing or medical costs. Sophoan decided to move in with her mother, also a domestic worker, and ask for her mother’s support.
Aware that Sophoan was unable to work and had no savings, her mother took a loan from her employer to pay for Sophoan’s birth costs at a hospital in Phnom Penh.
Shortly before the delivery her mother was injured at work and was unable to work for a few months while she recovered.
After Sophoan delivered her baby, she had to care for her injured mother, a newborn child and pay the loan.
With these demands, Sophoan felt pressure to go back to work prematurely, not knowing how or who would care for her newborn child and her mother. But the longer she stayed out of work, the more the entire family fell into poverty.
Stories like Sophoan’s happen every day in Cambodia.
https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/economy- ... ewsnetwork
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