This weekend I made my second trip to visit the Christian Response to HIV/AIDS (CRHA) program in Svay Rieng, in the southeast corner of Cambodia known as the “parrot’s beak” for the way it juts out into Vietnam. Tearfund, an evangelical development organization similar in many ways to World Relief, partners in the CRHA program. On this occasion, Tearfund reps Sophie and Leu were visiting from the UK, so the trip was for them. All the same, I did manage to get some photos out of the deal.

I never tire of views like this out the window.

Five dollars a night. Seatless toilet, no hot water, but a fan, a bed, and CNN.

There are shades of green in Cambodia you have never seen before.

Before you know it, teenagers will start putting ropes through their noses. Just wait.

A demonstration of how to bandage a wound of someone with AIDS.

On the outside looking in.

Cute little son of a gun…

… and he wouldn’t stay away from the camera.

Christians at a CRHA training session, taking time to sing and worship God.

This woman has AIDS but you wouldn’t know it by her radiant smile.

You should have seen the progression: in the first photo I took they look half confused, half scared, half angry, and by the end they’re smiling and sticking their tongues out for Pete’s sake.

Engchy sitting in the restaurant. I have never in all my days met someone who enjoys English idioms quite as much as he does. When you come here you’ll find out what I mean.