{"id":77511,"date":"2026-08-23T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/77511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T15:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:54:24","slug":"photos-show-cambodian-children-attend-school-in-floating-villages-along-the-tonle-sap-lake-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/77511\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos show Cambodian children attend school in floating villages along the Tonle Sap lake."},"content":{"rendered":"

KAMPONG PRAHOK, Cambodia — On Cambodia\u2019s Tonle Sap<\/a>, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, getting anywhere has always meant navigating the water. It isn\u2019t any different for schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

Most mornings, a gas-powered boat chugs through Kampong Prahok floating village, steered by students often no older than those climbing aboard. They pull up alongside floating homes, as peers in crisp uniforms clamber aboard, careful to keep their backpacks dry.<\/p>\n

The Iran war<\/a> is driving up fuel prices<\/a>, making it more expensive for students to get to school.<\/p>\n

Some children are quitting school and starting to work to help their families make ends meet. Cash-strapped governments<\/a> in hard-hit Asia<\/a> also are struggling to fund education initiatives and school meal programs that help keep millions of children in classrooms.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press reporter Sopheng Cheang<\/a> contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press\u2019 climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP\u2019s standards<\/a> for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KAMPONG PRAHOK, Cambodia — On Cambodia\u2019s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, getting anywhere has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21036],"tags":[94,642,135,1384,122,9695,5700,46],"class_list":["post-77511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sap","tag-business","tag-children","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-education","tag-general-news","tag-sap","tag-schools","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}