International Day Project Proposal (Q2)

Group Member(s): Pemika, Khwanchanok, Tanyatorn, Tanwarat, Sarocha

Country assigned: Cambodia
Development goal selected: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger,
Type of Product: Comic book

Product Description:
(Make sure it is clear what the product will look like, what it will include, and how it will
be organized.)
Our product will be a comic book. In the book, we will have 3 different sides of
stories from people in different classes i.e. labourers, employers and colonizers
which are included in Imperialism, Industrial Revolution and Colonisation. The first
part will be about labourers, their living qualities, their rights and their earnings.
The second part will be about employers, their living qualities, their rights and their
earnings. The last part will be about colonizers and how their arrival affect
Cambodia in political, economical and societal ways.

Summaries: (one paragraph minimum for each section with main ideas only)

Brief background of your country in written in your own words: (post 1900
creation of country + some major events that made the country what it is today)
Cause and effects of Imperialism on Cambodia
In 1867, King Norodom signed a French protectorate over Cambodia. Under the
treaty, the monarchy was allowed to remain, but France was in charge of all the
foreign and trade relations, and military protection of Cambodia. There were both
pros and cons of imperialism. The positive effects can be divided into 3
categories, which are Political, Social, and Economy. The political aspects of
imperialism is that Cambodia, having been influenced by France, is now a
constitutional monarchy. It also influenced Cambodias law system seeing as it is
based off of the French Legal System. The social aspects of imperialism are about
languages and religion. Having been colonised by France, French is the second
language of Cambodia and the religions were expanded. Overall, the positive
effects of imperialism are that the economy grew because of crops, the education
were improved, peoples health were better and there are improvements of
transportation and communication. On the other hands, there are negative effects
of imperialism in Cambodia. First, Cambodian people had less freedom and had
to follow Frances orders. Second, after the plantation system was introduced, it
separated the working class from the plantation owners creating a system similar
to the feudal system in Europe. Natives that were forced to work on plantations
only crop rice, but they were not allowed to have them at all. Lastly, there were
abandonment of rebellions, and the cambodian tradition were changed.

The ideas of Industrial Revolution in Cambodia

The industrial in Cambodia cannot be stated at a revolution but it was the
development instead. Since 2000 BC, Cambodia is believed to be a mixed
economy, that this area used to be the place of Southeastern China to the
Indochinese Peninsula Neolithic settle place. From that, the Cambodians had
rough ideas of economy about domesticate animals and rice crops and they later
on improve through the time, that they also lived along the Mekong river. That
have the same characteristics to the Mesopotamian Civilisation. However, there
are lack of information about the industrial, as most of them were focused on the
political (that link to the idea of colonisation). In addition, Cambodia had been
imperialised and colonised under French, Thai and Vietnam. After those wars,
Cambodian had been disrupted in the economic, because it was too new to them.
However, in 1993, Cambodia also had a huge growth rate in economy side, which
it embraced market economy dependent abroad; later on in 2010, they diversify
the economy maximise value and job creation by export rice. Including different
events such as Sihanouk regime, Khmer Republic, Closed Economy, State of
Cambodia and UN period and Kingdom of Cambodia.

Colonization
In 1864, Cambodia became a French colony. In the beginning, France did not
control much, but after France fully conquered Vietnam in 1883. France also
changed the policy of Cambodia government. In 1884, there was a big change
concerning the taxation, the policing and the abolish of the slavery system. The
effects after this forcing revolt of France was the rebel of the peasants inside
Cambodia which had Sriwattha of Cambodia as the leader. The result of this
suppressing was that almost 40,000 of the Cambodians moved to Thailand. The
rebel took 2 years. The rebel ended when a new governor named Philipini came
and talked to Norodom of Cambodia to end the rebel in 1st January 1887 by
France delayed the revolution of the slavery system. Norodom of Cambodia did
the notice and asked people to end the rebel. Sriwattha left into frontier of
Cambodia-Laos near the Mekong River. In the same year, France had
established the French Indochina. Cambodia was a protected state. So, they had
 highest governor as the representative of France. In 1940, It was the period of the
World War II, the army of Japan moved into Vietnam and took over from France.
In 1941, Japan occupied Indochina. In Cambodia, Japan ruled together with King
Norodom Sihanouk. In 1945, the World War II ended and the Japanese left
Cambodia. King Norodom asked the French to return back the land. He saw that
this negotiation looked to be unsuccessful, so he decided to go to the U.S,
Canada, and Japan and announced that he would not come back to Cambodia if
he did not get his land back. Finally, he got Cambodia back, along with Laos and
Vietnam. Cambodia had full power at army supervision after France allowed them
to transfer power of policing and power of the law court back to Cambodia.

Brief summary of the history of the social issue (based on MDG selected) in your
country: (causes of the social issue in your country)
The cause of poverty
The social issues in Cambodia that we chose to focus on are poverty. All of the
issues are linked and attributed to each other. The first factor that attributes to
poverty in Cambodia is low education. Children in rural areas do not have access to
education as their parents cant afford school fees. Instead, most children start
working outside for a living from a very young age with no education which in turn
creates a cycle passing on poverty from generations to generations. The second
factor that attributes to poverty in Cambodia is high population growth. The
population growth rate in Cambodia is much higher than those of the developed
countries. With higher population, the citizens will need more food and shelters
causing the government to spend more money on building a living place. They also
lack skilled workers due to low education and skill trainings because high
population growth needs health care service. The third factor that attributes to
poverty in Cambodia is civil war. Due to this fact, foreign investors is discouraged
from doing business in Cambodia, in turn making Cambodia has less economic
growth and activities. A lot of people also died as a result of civil war, children
become orphans, and many people have their home and cities destroyed. Also,
many unexploded landmines are buried in many areas of Cambodia, making it very
hard for people in rural areas who depend on agriculture for a living to farm on the
land, and other areas that arent inhabited by landmines are mostly exploited and
destroyed.
Brief summary of how the social issue (based on the MDG selected) has affected
your country (post 1945): (effects of the social issue in your country current
situation)
POVERTY
- Poverty in Cambodia is affected from the war, including low income and
consumption, poor nutritional status, low education, less access to public
services including school and health services. Also, low education is part of
poverty. Education in Cambodia is one of the huge issue because they dont
have enough schools, teachers, or resources. Some schools are too far
away from their house, otherwise their children cannot go to school because
some families are poor and their children have to work outside the house for
their living. Cambodia had get low of education because lost lot of scholar by
the war, and the poverty remains with the poor children who have to go out
of house to work for their education.
- They led to lack of money that use to develop the education in Cambodia.
From that, this led the young generations in Cambodia had less
opportunities to enter the schools, which they cannot gain enough
knowledge that they can use in the future. This led to they cannot meet the
requirements of the companies, and bring down the economic specifically of
Cambodia (also unemployment rate increase). Apart from that, they only can
afford to work in a low paid job, then this go through the generations in the
family. Other than that, as most of the job in Cambodia is based on farming,
so they then have the perspective of having more children, which the more
family members, the more work they can get done. But then this led to the
issue that they cannot afford every single need for their children.
Furthermore, it can also lead to population growth of this perspective and
also the cause from the lack of education, which they did not reach the ideas
of contraception. From that, they are unaffordable to condoms for their own
protection in relationship.
- After the poverty impacts, this also one of the reasons that can lead to low
medical and become the impact and dangered the Cambodian life. Including
the hospital did not provide the educations to the citizens thoroughly as the
budget is low, which it affects the uneducated about health citizens in
Cambodia. For example, lack of knowledge about medicine, sanitation,
contraception, etc. Sometimes, this then cause the people did not and lack
of their own health status and might risk their life because some diseases
are hard to find the symptoms, cannot be treat probably and endangered
their life if they did not get the healthcare service. From that, people can be
 treat randomly through a traditionally way of the country, which can increase
the disease rate to be dangerous, this can lead to spreading out the disease
into the cities.

Brief summary of what your countrys government has done to deal with the
social issue (based on the MDG selected): (policies in place and progress in dealing
with the problem)
Poverty
The ways to solve the problems of the poverty in Cambodia is to decrease
the tuition fee of the schools in Cambodia because many families face to
poverty issue. They did not have enough money to pay for the school.
Therefore, some parents let their children work by being beggars. Those
children might agree with their parents because of no many choices. Some
people think that begging money on the sidewalk is the best way to help
them to get more money, but they were wrong because kids will learn only
how to ask people, but they will not learn how to do. Some will be unhealthy
and get sick because of staying on the dusty roads or streets. That will lead
to the big issue of the country. To fix this problem, The governments should
establish the facilities such as education, healthcare with low price because
there are a lot of people cant afford the price and parents should sent them
to study, and government should decrease the tuition fee of the schools.
Many families might have enough money to let their children study and get
the better job in the future. Studying can help them earn more money
because they will have more efficiency to do work than other people who do
not get the education. After adult having good job, they will be able to to
sent their child to go to school.
After civil war, Cambodia was chaotic. In present, they are trying to fix the
problem that they got from the civil war, and the healthcare system is getting
better. However they meet the big problem, most of which is the price of
health care system is accessibility. Abundant of Cambodians cant afford the
medical service in the hospital since it is very expensive. Most of
Cambodias health care system use the curative medicine. The most
common illnesses that Cambodians always get are from the water and
sanitation such as diarrhoeal diseases, Malaria, malnutrition, and
tuberculosis. Most of Cambodian children will receive the vaccine that
against them from tuberculosis, tetanus, measles, diphtheria and polio. In
the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge proscribed Western medicine. That causes
 traditional medicine can only approach in Cambodia at that time, especially
in remote area. Therefore, the traditional medicine become Cambodias
culture.

Reference list for the starter sources used: (APA format)

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Challenges and Opportunities ( May, 2007 ) Retrieved from :
http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/docs/pdfs/cambodia_national_rpt.pdf
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https://cambodia24.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/poverty-in-cambodia/
- Cause of Poverty in Cambodia ( January 7, 2013 ) Retrieved from :
https://www.ammado.com/nonprofit/128766/articles/72904
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