Along the border between
Thailand
and Cambodia,
powerful criminal organizations do big business with casinos, prostitution and paedophilia. Cambodian girls and boys from
poor families are actually bought to be
exploited in the Thai prostitution
circuit . Moreover, extreme poorness leads many young persons to find a refuge
in drugs. They are called smoking glue boy, boys
and girls walking in the darkness
sniffing glue. They move like ghosts clasping a bottle in their hands
as it was a destiny they cannot abandon. Like the beam of a
lighthouse, in the darkness
of the Cambodian flatland, the Damnok Toek NGO proposes as a reference
point to
rescue these persons. This NGO works with specialized operators
through a series of specific programs
addressed to rebuilt a new future for these persons. The work
begins at the countryside where they
try to convince the families at risk to send their children to the
downtown
schools, and it continues in the evening
along the poor and degraded streets
along the casino walls. Damnok Toek, proposes reintegration programs
for all
the children victims of the human being trade. There are various
classes with specific
programs, social reintegration playing activities and skilled
teachers following the most
difficult cases. This work of mine has the purpose to tell about
this dark area of the geographic map that concerns two of
the main South East Asia countries. The black border line that in this case is not
just a cartographic line but an actual
living condition for many persons. This is the dark side of this so evident
part showing itself on the sexual
tourism scenario of the main Asian
tourist places. This project wishes to underline the precious work carried out
by the Damnok Toek NGO staff who, in the
silence, try to deviate the course of events to propose anew hope to these persons.