Von Thomas Schwarz.

The room is much too big for just one person. I  live here during my stay in Islamabad. When a Pakistani friend came to see me he said: “There would be room for more people.” He’s right.

These people have survived. They have been rescued by a boat from the flood. (Photo: CARE/Schwarz)

Thinking of the living conditions of those affected by the flood, I ask myself why I live in such a big room. I take some comfort in the thought that I travel a lot. Just to appease my guilty conscience.

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By Sokunthy Heng.

You might think I might be crazy when you hear me saying, “I want to experience earthquake.” It was three weeks ago that a slight earthquake occurred in Bonn, where I live at the moment.

People on the streets in cambonia. People come out of houses after the rain stoped in Phnom Penh (Photo:Vuthy Sok)

However, I was asleep and I did not realize. Later, I was astonished to learn it from my colleagues the next morning. As I have only seen on television, I want to feel how the earth shakes when a small earthquake occurs. But not a big one!
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