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Som Art, Community Facilitator Team Leader

A quiet, softly spoken young woman aged 32, Som Art is not a typical leader in rural Cambodia. Yet in December 2012, Som Art was elected by her community to represent five Banteay Srei target villages as president of her community facilitator network. “Before I was a community facilitator I was a housewife and I stayed at home and looked after my four children.

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Som Art

Community development structures continue

Ou Heub’s vegetable garden runs down towards the bank of the local river, which flows from the Tonle Sap lake. “Before I used to carry water on my back from the river up the hill 30 to 40 times each day,” Ou Heub explains, whilst showing the scars on her shoulders which are still visible from years of this backbreaking work.

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Ou Heub is watering her vegetable garden