Deputy Prime Minister Says Homeless People A worry For Tourism
Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An yesterday said the government should clear beggars away from the country’s most popular tourism sites by providing them with decent education and legal ownership of their land. … “We have performed well in working with homeless people, but I noticed that [in] some tourism regions like Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk [a lot of] children and homeless people ask for money from foreigners,” Ms. Sam An said. “We need to provide them with education and make sure they can stay in a house permanently and have land so they can earn a living.”… Am Sam Ath, senior rights monitor for local NGO Licadho, said that he supported Ms. Sam An’s idea to provide homeless people with land in order to stop them from begging. …
