Cambodia: The Invisible Construction Workers
Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, home to the famous Angkor Wat temple, is the only place in Cambodia, outside the capital Phnom Penh, which has a fast growing economy. The floods of tourist who come to see one of the wonders of the world, Angkor Wat, exceeds half a million people per year lately. Angkor Wat has created a tourist boom since discovered by the French explorers in the 19th century. The tourist boom has subsequently led to a construction boom and massively influenced life for the local population. From luxurious hotels to the most basic backpacker lodge, everything was built by the local population, using their bare hands, working mostly for foreign owners.
But in the chaos of this so-called development, construction workers are a group of people whose presence in a way has been forgotten. This in spite of the fact that they are one of the main players in the whole process of building up the development. They are like nomads who lives on the construction site, the very place where they eat, sleep, and even raise their children. And when their job is done, they will unnoticed move to a new site. Compared to Angkor Wat, they are The Invisibles!
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Pertinent work, and quite well executed.
8 May 2010 at 3:40 pm