To Be Selected
Pha Sophun is a 12-year-old student in the 5th grade at the Cambodia Hope School in Melum village, Melum commune, Baribour district, Kampong Chhnang province.
Pha Sophun has two brothers and two sisters and she is the second child in the family. Her father, Phan Sophal, and her mother, Luch Nei, are both farmers. The family owns one hectare of farmland, in which they produce one ton of rice per year. The family sells half of the rice they earn to support their family and they keep for some rice for daily eating in a whole year. However, this is not enough to cover the families daily needs. To help support the family, they sell vegetables at the local market, earning 2,000 riels a day.
Sophun is a good girl, she listens to her mother and helps her mother with house work and she is a good student in class, Sometime she helps to explain the lesson to her classmates also.
In the future, Sophun wants to be a soldier because she wants to defend her territory and she wants to help her family to live in a better life .
Date posted: April 2018
