Pov Srey

My name is Pov Srey Toch. I graduated in the field of accounting and finance in June 2023 at Build Bright University. I was born on 06 Sept 2002. My birth place is in Battambang province. We had four members in our family. My father passed away since I was 7 months old. As a single parent, my mother worked very hard to raise us. It was so tough but at least we had food. However, everything became ruined and worsened when my mother was in an accident and developed a horrible sickness, which was equivalent to cancer. My both elder sisters were sent to the orphanages in Phnom Penh because of the crisis that had happened so sudden in my family. At the age of nine, I was the one who stayed with my mother to care for her. My heart broke every time I saw her in pain, and I am frightened of losing her. I was so broken that I were unable to release any burdens of my family. Every day, I longed for speedy growth so that I could find a job, earn money, and take my mother to the hospital. At that moment, I realized that only education could help me to get out from this situation, but the question was “How can I have that education?”. At the time, it kept repeatedly came to my mind.