We don’t carry guns, we carry hope: Army of philanthropists deploy to support displaced Cambodian villagers

At a refugee camp in Kuleaen district, Preah Vihear province, volunteers are providing educational activities for children whose schooling has been interrupted by the fighting. - PPP/ANN

PHNOM PENH: Following the full-scale military clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border, thousands of displaced families have flooded into makeshift sanctuaries.

Preah Vihear now hosts 19 such sites, sheltering between 30,000 and 40,000 displaced people, while Wat Por 5,000 pagoda shelters more than 19,000 people — many of them women and children — fleeing from violence in Choam Ksan district.