NZ charity efforts in Cambodia captured on film

The stark realities of Cambodia’s rural communities, and the difference a Kiwi charity is making to young lives there, has been captured in a collection of photographs on display at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery from May 31.

‘Cambodia Rising: A blueprint for generational change’ is a raw and stunning collection of images by Auckland photographer Stacey Simpkin that sensitively documents more than a decade of progress by New Zealand charity Cambodia Charitable Trust in breaking the cycle of poverty in Cambodia through education.

Scars of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s are still fresh for many in the country. Almost one third of Cambodia’s people were killed by genocide, including a whole generation of artists, intellectuals and teachers. Four decades on, many families still live in desperate poverty.

In full: https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/210188-nz-charity-efforts-cambodia-captured-on-film.html

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