To Be Selected
Keo Navann is 15 years old, student in 9th grade at Angk Daun Pis Village Learning Center (#550), located in Angk Daun Pis Village, Toeuk La-ak Commune, Korng Pisey District, Kampong Speu province.
Navann is staying with her mother, since her father passed away when she was 5 years old, she has no any sibling. Her mother name: Nhea Savoeun, 48 years old, a farmer. Her mother owns 5,000 m2 of farmland where they can produce rice about 1,000 to 1,500 kg per year. Her mother can sell the rice products of 500 kg for $150 to support the daily need of the family and the reset she kept to eat during a year. Out of her owned farm work, her mother also accept other labor work like farming, harvesting to get some more extra income, she can make about 10,000 riels per working day, and this kind of job now is very difficult to find because most of the farmers they used/rent the harvesting machines. The income is not enough to support the daily need of the family, even though her mother always encourages her daughter to go school not to miss.
Every day, Navann rides her bicycle to school about 4 km round-trip. She is a smart, good student and study hard in the class. After school, she helps her mother housework on whatever she can do she just helps to do it because there are only two of them, mother and daughter.
In the future, she wants to be a teacher to teach the students in rural area, she hopes that she will become a part of human resources developer for the new generation for her country and helps her mother to live in better life.
Date posted: November 2018
