Phoeun Saody is female and five years old and has a younger brother. She lives with her parents in Trapaing Prus village, Samraong Tong district, Kampong Speu province. Saody is the first child in the family and her younger brother is just eight months old. She has had a chronic black lung disease for four years. After she had been born for eight days, she was sick and then sent to a pediatric hospital (Kuntheak Bopha hospital) in Phnom Penh. After medical check-up, she was found having this kind of disease. She lives in bad condition, for instance, she doesn’t have enough nutritious food to eat and lack physical hygiene and proper clothes. The parents don’t give her good care because they are busy with factory work. However, she lives in a proper house. She is corrigible, generous and behaves towards her classmates very well and enjoys playing with them as well. She never has any dispute with them at all. Her education is very poor because she never pays attention to her study so that her school result is very low. When coming to school, she never has enough school materials and never maintains them in good order and sometimes plays with them. Her daily activities both at home and at school, she helps clear away dishes for washing and mind her younger brother who has been newly born for eight months, sweep the class, arrange the tables and erase the white board. When asked what she would prefer to do in the future, she replied that she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up because she wanted to teach her illiterate mother. Her mother told her to try hard to learn to get knowledge to teach her because she was illiterate. She also said that she took pity with her parents, so she would choose to learn hard to become the best student in the class and to get knowledge.

Saody’s father is Im Sophea, 31 years old and her mother is Sok Chanrith, 32 years old. They both work for the garment factory for ten hours per day and sometimes until 9:00 P.M., so they have no time to take good care of their children, for instance, they have no time to cook food or supply their children with nutritious food, to buy enough school materials, clothes and uniforms, to cure the diseases and to prepare their daughter for school, etc. They have gotten some loans to meet their living needs, such as purchase of motorbike, house construction, health care, etc. The largest problem they face is that they both work, so nobody looks after the children. They leave their newly-born baby with the neighbor, so they have to spend some money for babysitting. They want their daughter to complete the upper secondary school, but they don’t know for sure whether or not they could afford her higher education.

Saody stays in KAD center all day. Normally, all the children who stay in the center are sent back home at 4:00 P.M., but as for Saoday, she has to stay early in the evening until their parents come back from work and sometimes until 7:30 P.M. Because she is an obedient girl, she never repines over a long wait for their parents. It is very easy to feed her because she can eat whatever given to her.