(Image: [[https://tizi.eleoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bamboo-tongs-1.jpg|https://tizi.eleoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bamboo-tongs-1.jpg)]]What are we eating today?

Morning glory sour soup.

Ancesters please protect our family from any danger.

What is this?

Oh, grilled fish.

Not fermented crab!

Fried crab?

Yes.

How much bamboo did you sell today?

25.

25?

The roads are not too muddy, I went a few days ago.

Where else should we go?

There are very few bamboos here.

Over there, we can fit two tractors

and get 50 to 70 stems.

3 or 4 people can do it.

- How many stems can we take each? - About 30.

How are we going to make a living

if we are not allowed to cut bamboo or firewood?

I'm going to Thailand to find a job. I need to take care of my sick husband.

You will get arrested.

You don't have a passport.

I'll leave in the morning and return at night.

Many villagers did it.

For a man, you are a coward.

How can you go?

It costs 3,000 to 4,000 baht. That's 100 dollars.

We get just enough to eat with one day of work.

We would have to work for 2 or 3 years without even eating.

Then we'll go work in the city.

How? We don't even have contacts there.

I went to Phnom Penh a few years ago.

I made 2.50 dollars a day.

I didn't have any money left after paying my rent and the utilities.

I wouldn't even cross the street to find food.

I was afraid of getting hit by cars.

I had to pay between 12 and 15 dollars to come back to Banteay Meanchey.

Because of that, I never visited my family.

There is no TIZI bamboo left here.

We'll have to go further south.

But people are afraid to enter.

There are land mines.

The other day, a woman went there with her family.

They stepped on a mine. Everyone died except their baby.

I cut these bamboos in the past few days.

We cut and tie the pieces together.

I sell a set of 10 pieces for 50 cents.

My boss gets them once a week.

Until then, I have to borrow money to buy food.

These bamboos sell for 10 dollars.

But transporting them already costs 5 dollars.

If you do the math,

my wife and I only make 1.25 dollars a day.

But we don't have any choice.

It's the only work we can do without investing money.

You should put ointment on your foot.

Don't worry, it's just a minor cut.

It might get infected and get in the way of your work.

I'll just put a little tobacco on it, it will be fine.