I’ve left my main residence in Phnom Pehn now, and so there are no main additions to Shadow Voices, as all these interactions centre around Duan Pehn, and now I live out of the city.

However, I did go back for health reasons for two weeks and there are a few updates. One is YooUn, there is no update about the missing Kresar, but her other child, a girl called Dany, has an update. Yooun told me she’d given her to an ‘Auntie’ who took her to Siem Reap to live, because she can have a better life there and go to school.

So now she just has the youngest son, Bot. I’m not going to pretend I understand these situations sometimes. She stays in the slum now, rarely in the street, as do most people, they tell me the police cause trouble.

Lim was doing very well for a while. She had a sponsor and bought a very nice, large room for two months. She tells me now she’s lost the money and is losing her place soon, but I never know what to believe any more.

There is another voice I never got round to adding, Srei Nui, whose children were left homeless when the police rounded her up. I’ve known her well for years and have been to the various places she lived at, including a tent in a building site.

So her children were homeless for more than a year, and then they let her go. The older boy has been arrested for something, and when he gets out, they’re all gonig to leave the city.

But she seems really on her feet, has a job and paid for a room. It’s the closest thing I’ve seen to success since I started this and I might write it all up soon.

As for myself, I am dealing with some serious health problems, and I am writing it up as a seperate section of this site. I’m making it so as I am also a shadow voice in this respect. I’ll perhaps include a link soon. Signing off for now xx