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The Rent Collector

The Rent Collector

Author(s): Camron Wright

Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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This is the story of people who pick over the rubbish in a waste dump, Stung Meanchey, just outside Phnom Penh – they make their homes from rubbish, they pick up their cooking implements and pots from the dump, their very existence is underpinned by the dump. Sang Li makes her living on the dump, and this is her world. Her son Nissay is constantly sick with diarrhea and can’t keep any food down so he doesn’t grow.

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