Travellers We May Have Passed

Virginia L. Korte and Elizabeth Strauss Carson tell of their visit to Pour un Sourire d'Enfant (For the Smile of a Child), a French NGO that during their January-February visit (the same time period Tan and Trev were also touring Cambodia).

Only a few hundred feet separate the giggles of bath and breakfast time from the acres of trash where the children later forage for scraps of cloth, paper, plastic and glass that they sell to recyclers for pennies.

Pour un Sourire d'Enfant does the work of heroes. It has a satellite school for older children, and its goal is to continue transitioning the children from the dump to the residential school, where they receive excellent care, nutrition and educations. This NGO works for all the right reasons.

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