Originally Posted by
jbcarioca
Ponheary Ly is in another league altogether and deserves our support. There is so much misery in the area and so much residue of the wars. Anybody who devotes herself to improving education and general welfare of children there is to be applauded.
Further her guide services and accommodation arrangements work well fro nearly everyone, it seems. Count me in with her fans. If this be blatant commercialism, so be it.
After internally debating weather or not to bring this up my decision is, at the moment, obvious.
While Ly and other NGOs have a desire to help people they also maintain the status quo politically, enrich the established uncaring gov/elite folks, and potentially create as many detriments, long term, to the people as they attempt to alleviate social ills.
You can praise these people all you want, and I'm not trying to demean Ly, I'm sure her intentions are great, but there are potentially sinister unforseen effects from all these NGOs plying their trade in Cambodia (and elsewhere).