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Carpool
A family makes their way between the hundreds of floating houses on Tonle Sap. The entire village moves back and forth by several kilometers ever year as the lake rises and falls with the seasons. This particular father has just picked up his children from school and is heading back home for the evening. The father paddles in back using the help of his daughter to guide the craft back home again. Family structures in Cambodia are almost universally in disarray. Almost every family lost a loved one during the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge. Younger families have to fear the plague of landmines as most of the country has not yet been de-mined. Ironically a life on a lake might keep this family safer than a life spent living on land despite the risk of drowning. (Photo by Scott Edwards)
Carpool
A family makes their way between the hundreds of floating houses on Tonle Sap. The entire village moves back and forth by several kilometers ever year as the lake rises and falls with the seasons. This particular father has just picked up his children from school and is heading back home for the evening. The father paddles in back using the help of his daughter to guide the craft back home again. Family structures in Cambodia are almost universally in disarray. Almost every family lost a loved one during the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge. Younger families have to fear the plague of landmines as most of the country has not yet been de-mined. Ironically a life on a lake might keep this family safer than a life spent living on land despite the risk of drowning. (Photo by Scott Edwards)