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.
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