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Smoky Mountain Estate – Returning to Steung Meanchey Waste Dump
by David Calleja
July 29, 2009
In the wet season of 2008, David Calleja presented A Garbage Diet. This provided an insight into Steung Meanchey, home to hundreds of residents living on a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For his second visit in January 2009 during the dry season, David joins members of the recently formed NGO named CHOICE, speaks with children and captures images of the site marked for closure, leaving residents facing an uncertain future.
David Calleja graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Social Science from RMIT University in his home city of Melbourne, Australia. He has taught English in China, Thailand, South Korea and Cambodia, where he worked for a local NGO, Sorya, based in Tropang Sdok village. In addition he has also volunteered as a kindergarten English teacher, tutor and a football coach to male orphan students in Loi Tailang, Shan State. He has narrated and produced a video biography of Cambodian students learning English entitled I Like My English Grilled. His video documenting life at Stung Meanchey, Cambodia, A Garbage Life, can be viewed online. Contact him at david_calleja@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read more articles by David Calleja.2 Responses to Smoky Mountain Estate – Returning to Steung Meanchey Waste Dump
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bren
September 16, 2009 at 5:07 am
Do you have any updates on the dump and those that were or are living there?
Is help still needed for houses and school?
David Calleja
September 19, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Bren, I have not heard anything since I put the video out.
Choice Cambodia’s email address is choicecambodia@live.com. Visits may still occur, even though the dump has officially closed. However, I doubt that everyone has left the premises.