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“You went where and did what?” I hissed through clenched teeth.
“But I thought that visiting an orphanage would be doing good work,” replied Andrew, my unsuspecting friend who was visiting from Australia. He had gone along to one of the many residential places suggested by the tuk-tuk driver and taken along a bag of rice. It was a good scam as the rice cost twice what it should so the driver would have earned a good kick-back.
Next to sex tourism and the garment industry, orphanages are the biggest business in Cambodia. The problem is that most tourists just don’t get it. They see the abject poverty and want to do something to help. Or at least throw some money at it to ease their occidental guilt.
Taing Huang Hao was visiting his parents in Phnom Penh back in January 2020, on a short break between semesters at the university he was attending in St Paul, and like most of us he had no notion that a global
disaster was looming and the world was about to change forever.
St Paul is the capital city of the state of Minnesota and one of the “Twin Cities” – along with the larger city of Minneapolis – with both cities sprawled along the banks of the Mississippi River, not unlike how the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers wind past Hao’s hometown – except that its all much, much colder for most of the year.
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