Changing Cambodia Description(11-13 year-old)

● Think about change (what things did I notice need to be changed in my country; what solutions did I think about, even if I couldn’t DO the solution?)
In Cambodia there are a lot of problem because this country is poor. The things that I want to change in Cambodia is to improve more law. Every country have different law and law is really important for people. In Cambodia have law but the people not respect it. Example the traffic lights place. People who drive the motor, car and bike or walk need to stop and see the traffic light whenever they want to cross or pass the road. As I see whenever I went to Phnom Penh, sometimes I saw people just go even though the traffic light told them to not go.
My solution is to help the people there understanding how important is to respect the law. Go to the community and convince them to keep respecting the law. Make them connect with the society such as giving the shirt. When they wear the shirt of law respecting pictures on it, it’s show that person also one of Cambodian respect the law even though that person not but it can remind others around that person to respect the law.

People habit: This is show how people not respect to each other. One of the example is when they were getting crash with each other. The real example that I heard from the RE said, one time there motor and car crash together. But the motor and the people not getting hurt, so the car just drive aways. But then the motor people stop the car and block the way to not let the car go away. The motor people just call the car driver to come out. When the motor people blocked the way to not let the car go, it was effect to the other people that around there driving to do their business or to go somewhere. It make traffic gems. Soon the police come to solve the problem, so everyone can go.

Conflict in family and the people around you. At my village there are a lot of conflict between the people in the family. When they have conflict, it can affect to the people around them. Example at my village, one man got drunk every time and so when he arrived home he always blame his wife, his children. It was so loud and my house can hear what he’s talking. At the night sometimes my family and another family can not sleep because of the man voice. His wife try to tell him not to drink the beer, but still he not listen. Meanwhile, for the conflict between one family to another family is similar to the conflict in the family too. One example was there are one house. That house divided into two different houses and so there are two family lived in. The family at the top always throw the waste down to the down stair house and so the man there tell the man at the top house to not throw any waste in front of his house. But the man in the top house not listen and just walk away. The man on the down stair house just ignore him. Soon the man on the top of the house still continue to throw every thing that they don’t need down to the man live in the down stair house. Sometimes the man on the top of the house flow the bath water into the man lived down stair house. So the man get really angry and he tell the man at the top to go to the police with him. And they still now having a conflict, it is not yet ended.

Environment around Cambodia. Plastic! Plastic! People in Cambodia only say that there are a lot of plastic in Cambodia. I know they were so smart that they know that. But they do nothing. People just keep throw the rubbish away, such as plastic nevertheless they knew that the plastic can be the problem for the environment. There no way that they stop using plastic because they know plastic is really easy for them to pack. I saw a ton of plastic at the Cba Ompove Bridge. Also the Cba Ompove Market too. But no one care.
– Create an mobile app to help them
– Be a model, collecting the rubbish and share the information about plastic problem

Education in Cambodia. At the government school, people just go to learn and teachers just teaching. Teacher was teaching the lesson and students just write fallow the teachers without listening and asking questions. Students at government school not brave enough to ask the questions when they don’t understand. Some of the student taking seriously at the school but some not. There’s not a lot of people in Cambodia are smart, that why Cambodia is poor. People’s education is really important because it can lead the people into the better future.
– Changing the teaching plan at government school
– Encourage teachers to feel happy to teach the students

Is Cambodia communist, or democracy. I do know that Cambodia is democracy but I still wonder why some people in Cambodia don’t get enough independent. One example of the place in Phnom Penh, people there had been evicted by the government to move their house and to go aways from the place. The government was taking that land to build the big building. But what about the other people, where they can go? Who can help them? They didn’t have any place to lived, or they need to find the job to feed their life.
– Take their feeling to put in your heart

Poor get poorer and Rich get richer. The people that rich will hire the other people to do the work for them such as household work, instruction worker and more. People that get hire need to work really hard to find the money. If the instruction worker build one building for their boss, the boss get the building and the boss will give the money but they were all just got a little bit. For the boss can take the building and attract the visitor to get the money.
– Learn when was young and try to have a good job at the future
– Respecting each other, give enough salary to the worker

Where’s all the money go? My wondering was where all the money that from the taxes go? I know it will be for the building road, hospital, school and etc. But in Cambodia have about 1.5 million people, each taxes it should be a lot but it still not enough. Is the money go into the corruption people’s pocket?

The flow of foreign(especially Korean) affect the youth in Cambodia. Cambodia’s youth started to know a lot about Korea such as song. When they had watch the song, they had been saw Korean’s style and so they think that is really handsome or pretty so they just copy.
The hospital- When people got sick they go to the hospital. The doctor in Cambodia’s hospital some are really need the money. They think money is more important that human. If sick people don’t have money the doctor will not cure. Hospital is belongs to the country, to the people who built it. It’s for everyone but for the doctor when they take the money like that it mean they take for their personal.

Smoking effect to the health. Most people in Cambodia smoke a lot nevertheless they knew the cigarette is really dangerous for the health. One family if one person smoke, it is can effect to all the people in the family such as the women who has pregnant.

Death fetal came from drowning. Mostly the children from 1-4 years old in Cambodia was die because of drown. It is the highest fetal in Cambodia but no one know about it because they get less collection data from drowning fetal.
Some children can’t live with their parents. Not all children in Cambodia lived with their parents. Like me, I live with my grandparents because when I was young my parents got divorce. I don’t want the parents to do like that. I want them to stay together and protect the child.
People commit suicide. Some teenager in Cambodia think really short. I mostly saw this news in newspaper. It was terrible. Some people took the dangerous medicine in their body, some jump from the bridge to the water to kill themselves. Some reasons of teenager in Cambodia did was because of family, love and maybe because the people around them.

Some people in Cambodia killing each other. They got conflicted, angry with each other and than……fighting so some got hurt and when to the hospital and the people that fought other will go to jail. Is that a really nice thing?

● Raise awareness about necessary change (did I talk to others and share my ideas about what needs to be changed; possible solutions? did I talk about that with people? with friends? family?)
I had been talked to my grandma to use the plastic again. And sometimes she does and sometimes not. When she come from the market to buy the food, she always keep the plastic to pack other things. For my aunt I saw her used a lot of plastic to pack the food to go to work. But now she’s not use a lot of plastic instead she chose other thing to pack the food.
I, my grandma and the member in my family had told my grandpa to stop smoke. So he do what we told, but for about one month my grandpa started to smoke again. But he not smoke like before. He started to reduce his smoking. I hope my grandpa stop it. Same as drinking the wine. My grandpa like to drink a lot the past five years. And so the member in the family including me told him to stop, so now he’s not drink like before. He was only drink the wine when ceremonies or some parties.
● Try to promote and encourage change (did I do my best to teach others/show others/be an example and model of change? did I try to educate others about change? ex: sharations, trips, networking)
Encourage people to come to join my teaching lesson at Kompong Chhnang.
Invite people to come to the sharation day in Liger.
Selling new product and create a website to convince people to buy my product which is phone/tablet stand.
How to help yourself when you drown?
Create an app that help people to reduce using plastic.
Distribute Cambodia cultures
Determination in Liger- Joining a running race, bike race, swimming across the river. I think this all encourage students in Liger(girls) to be more strong like me. Don’t be scared and got anxious when you do something. Never Give Up.
Networking is to share what would you do when you are the big business men/women. It is really important when you started to learn about it from young, practice and do it.
Try to share people about 3D printing.
Do translation(translate the animals’ books and economies’ books).

● Develop the possibility of change (before change can happen, other things must come first; did you try to “get the ball rolling” or take “baby steps” that come before making a big change?)

When on trip to teach people about first aid.I was went to Kompong Chhnang to teach the people there about first aid. I had learned from the nurse about how to cure people health.
Sharation. I was sharing my ideas and what I was learned in Liger school. I share the experiences, lessons and ideas to other people that come to the sharation in Liger. I shared them about the trip that I went with my classmate.

Invented new product to help others. My group make one product called phone/tablet stand. This product help people to be easy when they used their advice. They can put the phone on the stander and they don’t need to hold it.

Teaching children how to help themselves and others when drowning. This topics I still working on it with my exploration group. We will teach the children(5-14) about basic swim, how would they swim when they are in the water. We also will make the poster to put at the government school for the students there to see. The posters show people to be aware from the water. They should not go near the water without adult, be aware of the animals in the water and etc.
Create a lesson plan
Register for the students
Start to teach
Drawing and making poster for the school at provinces and Phnom Penh(Government school, maybe international school). We will translate it into Khmer and English.

Joining Technovation Challenge 2015
Go on trip to learn more and then create a blog or website to share and also share it when sharation.
such as Culture shock. Create and share it to the people around the world to know about Cambodia, culture and how people live in Cambodia and etc.
Joining the RACE such as football, running, bike and swim. Cheer for others to join with me even though they think they can not do it. Always tell them that you will not know if you not try it.
Networking: Pretending to be one of the business man and share my idea, the business to others business man(students)
Creating a video about 3D printing and share on Youtube to let people see about it. Also share about it at the government school.
Translating in the document about animals and economies.

● Actually create change in Cambodia this year
People know how to cure themselves when they got fever or ankle sprain. I think I change them because first time they don’t know what to do when they got ankle sprain or fever. Some of them was know what to do with fever but it not right. I think it can help people a lot when their children or someone getting hurt they can help and don’t need to bring someone to the hospital if it not so dangerous.

Children knew how to swim and help others when they get drown.
People know how to be safe when there are pond or water near them.
Make people know more about Liger by creating a newspaper.
People get easier when they use their phone or device with my group product.
Others know more about Cambodia cultures
People know more about 3D printing in Cambodia so they can invent new thing with it.