Sharing My Opinion of Child Labor in Cambodia
there are kids that are out on the streets trying to sell things take a selfie see the duck yeah really what I love it that's crazy this is one of the more awkward attempts at trying something like these guys just doing their job and these foreigners show up they're like what do you want like can we help you they're like no hey we have been traveling around Cambodia driving this three-wheel machine this is called a Tuk Tuk and we have been participating in a travel challenge called the tuk tuk tournament and with this event there are a bunch of different challenges but today we want to focus on the category of challenges that is designed to make a positive impact and support the local communities and just help the local people so let's get started let's go see we just made it down South by the way we've been traveling all around the country mostly in like rural areas and countrysides but we just made it down to the beach and it is beautiful down here so we're very excited to explore this area and also go meet some local people and hopefully make a positive impact go make some people's days a little bit better you ready I'm ready let's do it it so these kids are trying to sell us these kids were asking for money but I'm not a big fan of giving kids money but we have these little duck toys yay and we gave her you want to see in the mirror we gave her a clip for her hair let me see yeah little duck clip a she's so happy and we gave them these little snacks you look great he looks pretty beautiful yeah the sticker what this you want this you go I think we have a I have some more of those you know where they are pink Oh yay blow yeah does it work yeah there it is yeah quack pack quack pack take a selfie see the DU yeah yeah quack quack quack quack qu quack quack quack quack H and the little ducks too y a she kissed the little dogs [Music] bye bye thank you so I just want to talk about that real quick specifically kids because we've noticed in the tourist areas of Cambodia there are kids that are out on the streets trying to sell things and it breaks my heart saying no to a kid but I really don't think it's a good thing to buy stuff from children and the reason is because if if you buy stuff from kids then they are encouraged to keep doing that and then that prevents them from going to school and like being a kid and I will buy stuff from local adults because they're adults they don't you know they they don't they shouldn't be in school or whatever but it I don't like to encourage kids working on the streets so but with that being said I also don't like to just say no so we have a bunch of these little gifts that we like to give kids when we see them trying to sell stuff so that the kids can be kids yeah like just be a kid like and you see how excited they get when you give them a gift like they actually get more excited when we give them gifts as opposed to like actually giving them money so surprised too yeah yeah and they just like we're giving them attention and we're just we're having fun like we're playing with them and I I think that actually is more of a positive thing because you're just allowing those kids to stop working forget whatever pressures they have going on in their life for just a short period of time and just let them be kids let let them have fun let them play and it's adorable when when they just get so excited over a little a little gift we have these little ducks and we gave it to them and they she kissed it she was so happy and you know I don't I don't I don't know what's going on in their life I don't know who's encouraging them to go out and sell stuff um but yeah I just I think that's our way of supporting the kids out here just giving them some positive attention and little gifts instead of encouraging them to sell stuff on the street so okay before we get started let me quick quickly show you some of the challenges we're trying to complete today which by the way this is the app that's made for the tikk tournament and just to give you a little preview of what we're doing here this is the map of Cambodia and you can see all these gems these are different locations that we get points for visiting and right now we are down oh where the heck are are we we're over here so you can get points for visiting these locations you could also get points for completing what are called quests we have all these different categories of quests today we're going to focus on this category and check this out so first we have build back help build back Cambodia help professional construction workers do their job on a building or infrastructure big Tipper leave at least 10,000 that's the local currency here tip at a local restaurant act of kindness do an act of kindness for a local help them to do work or chores in their daily life like cooking cleaning yard work etc FYI giving cigarettes does not count so first things first let's find some food let's go find a local restaurant and if the vibe is right and the service is good and we meet someone who's nice and we think they deserve it we will leave a big tip so we can complete the big Tipper challenge hello you have restaurant yeah food but we have like local food we have the food lay down on the TR local food Perfect come my food my favorite like here have grilled pork grilled pork okay egg oh it looks like bacon it's grilled pork soup in soup yeah soup and you have steam bun is this uh bun yeah yeah oh nice I think she's going to want that pork and is the same same why is this green h green for the kind of leaf I don't know what it is oh it's the leaf kind of Lea okay yeah yeah do you want to get a bun or what do you want uh we'll do two buns maybe some rice and a soup yeah um and that come with rice and this comes with rice yes sure yeah I'll I'll take whatever you want to give me okay okay got some rice over here slicing some cucumbers yum fancy oh we got soup over here wow that looks so nice oh nice some carrots and onions what what else is in there cucumbers some vegetables wow a this looks delicious presentation very nice thank you so much so we have some rice as he was explaining this is all natural rice a lot of the restaurants we've been going to the rice is is very white and this one you can see it's a little bit more Brown and reddish and he was explaining because most people just get their rice from the markets uh but they get their rice locally from their own Farm organic all natural so that's why it looks like it has more grains and stuff but that's great I love that and then over here we have some pork fried pork egg cucumbers and some more veggies and a little sauce to dip it in and some soup I love how all the meals here a lot of the meals come with a little bowl of soup yay let's dig in and the steamed buns thank you and you cut them up for us so I've been seeing these steamed buns we've had a few of them around Cambodia but inside this one has some meat this one's pork and a really soft hot bun it is delicious this one's a green one oh this one actually also has an egg in it nice egg surrounded by pork nice and soft ooh that's so good it's so warm and soft sweet sweet yeah delicious meal can we pay yes okay to guide 3,000 so 26,000 26,000 yeah okay how is it how do you say very much thank you very much aun a Akra so that's 26 thank you so much and is a 50 it's extra for you that's a tip oh thank you thank you why because you're very nice oh my God no no no don't worry he's trying to give us water okay I'll take the water okay thank you so much thank you delicious food thank you so much we wish you the best of luck we'll tell everybody to come here to your restaurant thank you congratulations it's very nice meeting you yeah enjoy your meal nice me nice meeting you you maybe see you yeah maybe we'll see you there you work parttime somewhere else yeah yeah where at The Kuman Kuman Market is Froman Bungalow Kuman Bungalow that's where we staying [Music] yeah really no way what are you do what are you doing there uh cooking and also B and at are you working there today or tomorrow uh tomorrow I like tomorrow to today off you today off that's so funny there's so many places to say yeah that's so while wow it was nice meeting you bring it in give me a hug I wish you the best of luck if you come here to this part we are in uh in K right now here is this the name of your restaurant K Cafe White Horse everybody come here and meet Kim thank you so much 12 years old and one four years old four and 12 years old you have children well we have these little gifts for children wife call my here yeah your wife is here to are your children here are your kids here yeah they're they're over here if you want to come out so we also have these little goodie bags these little care packages for kids that we meet along this trip and Kim has two kids so let's go meet them this is his house right here is this a rice oh is this the rice that you serve at the restaurant oh oh hello dogs my shower your wife's in the shower oh my boy my boy oh your boy oh okay it's okay hi we make these I wanted to see you give him it's very nice yeah we we made these to give cuz we were in the countryside makes the kids really happy so very very funny and happy Cambodia yeah is this your house uh my sister house your sister house yeah nice yeah but I stay with her yeah yeah why don't we give him these I know your kids are in the shower have time to go so yeah thank you so much for of course maybe maybe if we stay more in this area we come back and eat more at your restaurant but thank you so much hopefully your kids enjoy that so nice to meet you Kim oh man so I just want to talk about that real quick cuz it was loud in there there's a lot of cars driving by and we talked to Kim for a while Kim was explaining that that is his restaurant he's had it open for the past few months he had it open a few years years ago the pandemic and everything shut it down he wasn't getting much business they also did construction on the road so he had to close down for a while and he was saying he has a part-time job and he was really happy because I told him like I want to send more people I want to recommend your restaurant we also gave him a really big tip which he was very excited about I'm just so glad because he was such a nice person he like presented everything so nicely he cut off our buns he made it like it was just so yeah it was just a much better exp local place we've had yeah he put so much effort in to really try and make our experience at his restaurant positive and it worked like he we loved it oh yeah he was saying how he has a part-time job and he would really love to not work a part-time job he would really love to just work in his restaurant but he's not making enough from his restaurant right now to do that so I asked him where is your part-time job and the craziest thing is is there's probably over a 100 hotels in this area like we just made it down to the South Coast where this is a bit more of a touristy area than where we've been traveling through like Rural countrysides and stuff with like no tourists at all yeah like look like there just there hotels so many places to stay so many hotels all over here and last night we arrived without a plan we we're just kind of looking on Google Maps like where should we stay there's so many it was a bit overwhelming and we ended up going to see a couple and the one we the one we ended up staying at is called Kamai hands and what are the chances what are the freaking chances that Kim's part-time job is at the place that we are staying what I love it that's crazy just like the way the universe works and we even pulled over at another restaurant before that and something about it was like I don't let's just keep going let's get to the next one and the next one was Kim's and I'm so glad we stopped there and we're not done yet we have more challenges to complete today and more people to hopefully help out make a positive impact and share some smiles and let's keep on adventuring see where this dat brings us okay so one of our challenges it's called build back or something like that and the objective is to find locals building something building a home building a structure and help them hello what can we get off the road I think we're okay there and we saw these guys Building looks like they're laying bricks Su how are you yeah I drive Tuk Tok this guy's laying bricks over here oh he's shoveling some cement I want to learn uh some bricks if they'll let us let's see how he's doing it this day all right he's laying he's laying the uh look how smooth he is puts it on like that in there I don't know if I'm going to be able to you want to try these guys are professional laying bricks 1 two three four nice I'm a little shy I to help can we help here this he's uh he's laying some he's mixing up some cement over here shovel oh look he takes the cement the dry cement ah sprinkles it on there okay sprinkle some dry cement this guy's gonna mix it all up just mix oh he said not to do it yet let it sit building uh looks like they're building a new an addition a new home right here can I try can I help you no okay it's okay we'll get out of here good job thank you so maybe this isn't the easiest task I don't think uh the wall are killing it yeah I don't think they want help with this but we'll keep trying yeah this is one of the more Awkward attempts at trying something like these guys are just doing their job and these foreigners show up they're like what do you want like can we help you they're like no they're building a little house they're just building a house yeah I'll definitely not be helping I'll probably be making their job a lot harder so it's okay we'll continue on we'll find something that is more in line with actually helping people but that's one of the actual challenges of the tournament and it's a challenge because it's it's not easy you got to find someone who's going to let you help them so if you're from the United States or anywhere that you've never seen rice growing it's one of the most beautiful plants this is a rice field right here and just the way the Sun hits it it just looks so nice especially out here we got palm trees it's gorgeous go try let's go see Hello is day oh cool we're just driving down the road passing this mangrove forest and we see these people loading up oh so where do you take the mangr where you take them we help you I help you help hold this here all right wow Tada so it looks like there's a mangrove forest over here and they are taking some of these plants I think there's a sign that says mangr yeah oh right down here oh so many you take these somewhere else yeah yeah yeah your turn help them out so I'm assuming what do you think these are used for Alana uh to maybe prevent Coastal erosion yeah so they're taking some of the plants from over here in the mangrove forest relocating them to other places to help prevent Coastal erosion maybe Mangrove forests are really essential for uh for a lot of things like they regulate the environment also they uh prevent flooding and protect from natural disasters and things like that right yes yes I think there's something uh they help with groundwater saltwater intrusion but I don't know yeah I think they also help desalinate yeah I think that's something thing maybe really okay good job good job so this is their they're growing it's like a mangrove Nursery over here you can see these little nice you can see these little Mangrove baby plants they're growing over here and I'm assuming there's some type of organization or some type of program where people like this use these plants in other areas to help grow Mangrove forests in other places cuz they naturally grow here so this is like a little Mangrove nursery and then they can relocate them and help expand this mangr Forest which helps the environment I think do we know byebye and there they go or they're just stealing the mangrove plants and selling them but I don't know hopefully we just help them do a good thing look how freaking gorgeous this place is we are at ankle Beach and it's just crazy to me how we just we just driving down the road we saw this and we got out as the Sun is setting and like where else in Southeast Asia could you come to a beach at sunset at such a picturesque location on a swing and no one no one has approached us no one's tried to sell us anything no one's bothering us like maybe maybe I'm going I don't even know who this is I think there's like a person over here selling some stuff like there's obviously chairs maybe it's this guy but he's not even saying anything he's not hustling us not hassling us like I don't know I feel like there's so many other places I've traveled to where if you come on a beach sunset and you find a swing like this there's going to either be a line of people waiting to take a photo or someone charging you to sit there and neither of that is happening here right right now just beautiful look at this sunset wow look at all these dragon flies so many dragon flies feel like we're in a fairy tale Sunset dragonfly chill dog on the beach is not trying to bite me a swing over here this picturesque thing these kids getting naked and swimming in the ocean parents are telling him not to he just got spanked a that's not nice I'm sorry back to the sunset dog dog dragon flies oh yeah pretty sure dragonflies eat pesky bugs like mosquitoes so this is amazing beautiful beach dog we got Street dogs all over and now we got Beach dogs hello baby you want to be friends can I pet you I'll just show you affection from here I'm afraid you would bite me if I get too close he gives me bite vies a bite Vibe you want to be friends can we be friends can we be friends want something I don't have any food but I don't want we just found this night market hello almost run over my toes we just found this night market and there is a bunch of different styles and types of food here and I am so hungry and I just want to take you around show you what's available here
2025-01-11 00:17
