Sokunvery

Sokunvery

"But we were forced from village to village.  Because you had no control over anything.  They gave you a spoonful of rice. For a family of, what, four or six, they gave us like, started off with a cup of rice to a spoon of rice.  That’s why everybody starved.  The rice...you make rice soup and things, porridge, and things like that.  But you can’t survive when you have to work in the fields twelve hours a day.  But, you were not in one village. You were forced, if they needed you in  another village, if there was no people working in another village – they died or something – you forced to go there, to the other village and work.  And they would just keep on moving you around."

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Sokunvery came to the United States with her mother, Sakira. She graduated from college in 2001 and has been working in the field of social work ever since.

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