Gloomy photos of how they live in the poorest area of Cambodia (12 photos)

Even in the poorest country, people are poor in different ways.





Even in the poorest countries, there is an area that lives worse everyone. It was in this area that the photographer Steff Gruber visited (Steff Gruber). It is located in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, and is called "Sixth Kilometer"



Its second name is Railway Community or literally "Railway Community". People here live in makeshift houses, which stand on an elongated section along the railway tracks and more resemble huts.



These shacks usually have one room, and in such conditions live about 300 families. The railway connects three districts of Phnom Penh, but it is the "Sixth Kilometer" - the poorest area.



Some local residents make money by selling various of things. They lay out their goods right at the threshold of their shack along paths, laying fabric under them.



Life here revolves around the railway: children constantly play on the rails, animals and the locals themselves walk.



Every time people hear the train whistle, they immediately they gather their makeshift shop, grab children in an armful and leave with ways. After the train rushes by, everything falls into place again. places: children return to games, and adults to trade their modest goods.



Steff Gruber did not come to this area out of an idle curiosity, he wants to know about the problems of the railway community learned all over the world.



The photographer has been shooting this settlement since 2019, and recently the exhibition was launched with the support of All About Photo magazine, which called Railway Community.



Cambodians living along the roads have a huge number problems ranging from lack of water and food to sanitation. However the most pressing problem is that even this tiny house they can lose.



Phnom Penh authorities plan to build along the railway line a wide track and create a drainage system. It means one thing: people must leave these areas.



However, no one knows exactly where to resettle these 300 families, after all, they are unlikely to be provided with housing. Over the past four decades, from Phnom Penh was evicted by 40,000 people. They were all just expelled from capital during the construction of infrastructure. Perhaps the inhabitants of the Railway Community awaits the same fate.



It is not surprising that with such a standard of living, Phnom Penh has become one of the cheapest capitals in the world, and that is why the city is loved travelers.