After a week finding the stillness within on the beautiful island of Koh Mak in Thailand recovering from a long period of hard work teaching English in Korea, i have arrived in Sihanoukville. First impressions are that much of this place is geared towards tourists getting completely wasted out of thier heads. It seems to be very much a lawless place with an unsubtle underbelly of drugs, prostitution and pedophilia. Though i know that its changing as Sihanoukville is developing relatively quickly. The Cambodian Childrens Painting Project is located right by serendipity beach, the centre of debauchery in Sihanoukville. Here local kids come to learn artistic skills and are taught English, they also have thier schooling paid for. More can be read on the website www.letscreatecambodia.org.
First day here was chaotic, trying to figure out how things work etc. I brought out a donated camcorder from the kind folks of Korea, the kids loved it, ill upload a video to youtube soon of thier experiments. My personal objective is to get an independant media art room set up within CCPP where the kids can learn video editing, photo editing and animation. There will be a website showcasing all of the kids work in a few weeks called 'Young Cambodian Filmmakers'.
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