Young Kiwi Couple Coming to Cambodia to Help Disadvantaged Women

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How the hell did they get visas? :BangHead:
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Klangattack wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 7:56 pm Hopefully their fluent in Khmer ???
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how about exploited men?

I guess they're not important,

or maybe there are no exploited men

or how about anybody who's exploited? that would be novel.

but nobody would clap for that.
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Women first for sure
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There are no unsung hero's now.
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bossho wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 8:20 pm Herr Nerdlinger,
Come and live here among us and get involved with the everyday struggle of it. Why do you insist on this cheeky chip on thy shoulder Herr Nerdlinger? For anyone that has lived here for any amount of time I can't imagine how they would NOT consider social work especially when it comes to young women. We get to see young women bullied and worse all too often, it hurts. We are told to let the Khmer take care of the Khmer and that there is nothing we can do. Anyone who is willing to dive in and go at it with basic competency skills with this huge underserved portion of the population here is welcomed and encouraged. I have yet to meet an expat here in recent times that is solely concerned with messing about with these women and not taking on some kind of teacher role with said women at some point in the relationship. Are they perfect role models ? No. Are these people that are coming to get involved going to get it all right first go? Probably not. People, all fucking people, have huge potentials and tremendous amounts of unpredictable creativity welled up inside of them to be used just in these instances. One of the reasons I suspect some of us DO enjoy living in Cambodia is that we get to dig deep everyday to try to understand and grow into and be a part of our chosen community. Nowhere I have ever lived in the world has shown me so much room for my own development as a human being, and sometimes my dreams get to intersect and click with a local person and its a beautiful thing to behold. Come, Herr Nerdlinger, come now- get off the bench, get a glove on and get in the game, this is your life mate.
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I think you may have misunderstood my post. I have no beef with them, I was posting in anticipation of responses like those from Klangattack, IraHayes, Multipox and Anchor Moy.
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It's sounds nicer if you're saving girls, give them the skills so they can work in a garmet factory away from exploration.
They plan to open coffee shops so the girls can take the skills back to the province that will come in handy., But first they need to find a nice apartment for around $500 a month and a Lexus so they can fit in with their crowd.
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IraHayes wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 9:01 pm There are no unsung hero's now.
I'm slightly sympathetic to the cringe of the article because I'm not convinced the couple approached the journalist with that kind of writeup in mind. I say this because the article reminds me of one that appeared about me in my local rag many many years ago when I first moved abroad. The journalist in question never even approached me, they just found out through the grapevine that local lad emigrated, and grabbed my Facebook profile picture and wrote this gushing human interest piece about me that I'd hate to see online cause it made me look like a complete arse even though I'd said and done nothing.
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Anchor Moy wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 8:07 pm
nerdlinger wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 6:21 pm Flood of replies explaining why these people are assholes in 3..2..1...
No :nono: they are not assholes at all. This couple are leaving New Zealand where daily life is chill and almost normal.
They are idealists with good intentions, but it sounds like they have never been to Cambodia before, which will be challenging to say the least in these times of Covid.
With the best intentions, you can still be not very useful. As someone said above, hope they have learnt some language skills, and something about Khmer social culture.

Oh, and I hope this is not connected to an evangelistic church - redemption from slavery = come to Jesus.
(I have no idea about the origins of their association BloomAsia.)
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nerdlinger wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 9:09 pm
bossho wrote: Sun May 16, 2021 8:20 pm Herr Nerdlinger,
Come and live here among us and get involved with the everyday struggle of it. Why do you insist on this cheeky chip on thy shoulder Herr Nerdlinger? For anyone that has lived here for any amount of time I can't imagine how they would NOT consider social work especially when it comes to young women. We get to see young women bullied and worse all too often, it hurts. We are told to let the Khmer take care of the Khmer and that there is nothing we can do. Anyone who is willing to dive in and go at it with basic competency skills with this huge underserved portion of the population here is welcomed and encouraged. I have yet to meet an expat here in recent times that is solely concerned with messing about with these women and not taking on some kind of teacher role with said women at some point in the relationship. Are they perfect role models ? No. Are these people that are coming to get involved going to get it all right first go? Probably not. People, all fucking people, have huge potentials and tremendous amounts of unpredictable creativity welled up inside of them to be used just in these instances. One of the reasons I suspect some of us DO enjoy living in Cambodia is that we get to dig deep everyday to try to understand and grow into and be a part of our chosen community. Nowhere I have ever lived in the world has shown me so much room for my own development as a human being, and sometimes my dreams get to intersect and click with a local person and its a beautiful thing to behold. Come, Herr Nerdlinger, come now- get off the bench, get a glove on and get in the game, this is your life mate.
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I think you may have misunderstood my post. I have no beef with them, I was posting in anticipation of responses like those from Klangattack, IraHayes, Multipox and Anchor Moy.
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Yet another couple where the husband tries hard to outdo the wife as a practicing feminist. In the footsteps of Prince Harry, the "feminist nurturing dad" according to his wife Meghan. Yawn.
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