I first heard of VOICE whilst sitting in a little guesthouse / restaurant called the LAZY GECKO. It was run by an Aussie couple Barb and Ash Eason and being fellow Aussies they very quickly became part of our lives here in Phnom Penh. As an educator I spent many hours talking to Barb about the work I was doing here and the work she was doing with the evicted residents of Lakeside, the misplaced, the downtrodden the street sellers the sad but joyful extended family VOICE had f

"The two boys are actually my nephews but my wife and I adopted them because their parents couldn’t support them. I was working as a moto taxi driver at night and a mechanic during the day. My wife and I have two daughters already and my sister-in-law lives with us to help afford the $40 rent. The children moved in with us but didn’t have paperwork in order to register for school. My neighbor told me that VOICE helps kids go to school, so we came to the centre.” Two weeks lat