Eat, Relax, and Pamper Yourself, It's for a Good Cause!

When I first arrived in Phnom Penh my host Greg started talking about all of these great NGO’s in town and how they support different programs.  I didn’t think much of it and was still not impressed when we visited a few of the shops, to be fair though I was working on maybe 4 hours of sleep.  Now, after having been to Kampot and seeing various businesses set up there I understand what Greg was talking about.  It’s heartbreaking to walk around and see the children begging for money or trying to sell trinkets on street corners, but it’s also hard to know which ones will benefit from your money and which are being used.  That’s what make these businesses so cool, you can know where your money is going and who’s going to benefit from it, and even better it’s money spent on things you’d be doing anyways, I mean you do eat, don’t you?

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