Children of Poi Pet

Poi Pet is name of Cambodian town for border crossing with Thailand.

This video was shot on Thai side of border. On surface children look OK, but its a sad story. Supposedly they are rented from orphanages and put out on the streets to beg from tourist and rich Thais. You will notice in video a small girl is carrying a baby, this is a common ploy used at border. The baby in that shot was sick, I could hear the baby sniffling. Some of the kids offer to hold an umbrella.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Children
• Poi
• Pet
• Begging
• Cambodia
• Thai
• Thailand
• Beggars

[Smashbandits]

sad in a way :<

[artistawake]

experienced a lot of this when i was in Poi pet crossing the border from Cambodia to Thailand... it is very sad.

[Obamashoes2008]

these are sad stories...

i saw in an documentation that the parents of the kids sell them to rich thais :( .... and let them beg in cities like krung thep(bangkok) and that p0li...e works together with these people(sry I dont know that word of that what I mean) that bring them out of cambodia !

its sad!!

saw that on Phuket 6 yrsago and in BKK (was there many times)

[Jean2291]

Its just like in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. With what happend to Jamal, Salim and Latika. They were taken by an orphanages and then put on the streets with babys and patchs on thier eyes to collect money from theses kids. Sad and frustating for theses kids.

[kiaathecat]

the guy in green shirt he acting like an ASS hoe I hope he burn in hell

[icuicu2006]

This is a common situation on the boarder town of Cambodia. I lived in Thailand for several years and sometimes went to see my monk friends in Siem Reap. Many of these kids beg and 80% are being exploited by their own parents! That's survival Cambodia.

[Xschtar]

I saw the exact same situation when I was in Iceland, except the beggar kids were riding bolar bears.

[MotelCambodia]

I seen the same thing in Seattle WA.

[perkele0079]

Big deal, it's a tropical climate.

[thai1959]

Been there.Bought so much food for poor orphane Khmer kids I had little money left for me.There just to many of them.