Berkley Center

by Ethan Carroll (2010-11 WFDD Fellow)

Two communities lie in the shadow of Oudong Mountain, both recently transplanted from Phnom Penh's urban core. But while both face similar challenges in this area over twenty kilometers from the city and its…

by Nathaniel Adams (2010-11 WFDD Fellow) A silver-haired man slowly crouched and lit two candles, which stood amid a careful arrangement of ritual objects: a plate of uncooked rice, a clay urn, two wooden sticks and a bottle of rice wine. With the…

Crossing the Bassac River from downtown Phnom Penh, the Mean Chey slum was in plain sight. The housing looked dilapidated and the river was encroaching, as there had been heavy rains upstream. Inside the slum, however, the view is of three walls: one…