Girl #71 - Borey
Sponsor: The Shana Alexander Foundation
Profile: Uy Borey is 15 years old and a six grade student at the 2006-2007 semesters of the Salakrao Nippon Foundation primary school in Thoul Tor- Toeung village, Pailin.
Current situation: Her family’s homeland is in Battambong province, they moved to live here three year ago. Living on someone’s land; growing corn on two hectares of land and the output get $160 per year but they have to pay the debt for about $250. Besides of faming her father burns wood charcoal for a living, earns $1.20 a day. Her mother has serious gynecology but sometime she could help her husband to do something around. There are seven members in the family. She has two sisters and two brothers. She is the second child in the family. Her oldest sister is a grade seventh and her two brothers are in the same school as her. The reason for her frequently school absence is due to her house is far, some five kilometers from school, requiring more then one hour’s walking in good weather, but for the rainy season she could not pass the channel (the water is high during rainy season) because her house is other side of the small river. Moreover, her parent asks her to look after animals, clean grass around and take care her youngest brother. Her father says, however, Bory is intelligent student, she always get a high grade among 40 students in the class.
Problem she faces: The family is living in the poorest condition. Her house is far and requiring to pass the small river. No own land
Suggestion: Her parents have allows her to attend school regularly.
Support: we pay her parent $10 a month ($120 a year)
Reported by: Nead
Date posted: January 25, 2007
