The power of positivity
Sokhon Sea 18 January 2021 Battambang, December 2020, In a small wooden house in rural Battambang, 10-year-old Van Niza sat one afternoon in December, trying to study. Schools had closed across Cambodia as a result of another outbreak of COVID-19 and so she was again at home. As usual, it was difficult concentrating in a small house that was always full of relatives, including her grandmother, mother, aunts, cousins and brother, but Niza felt supported. “My mother always finds time to help me with my homework,” Niza said. Niza’s mother, 36-year-old Van Veuy, also rece...