Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand face doom and gloom

The Covid 19 crisis has dealt a devastating blow to migrant workers who don’t qualify for the government’s financial aid package and have been deprived of the social security benefits they are normally entitled to. Channy Ven, a 31-year-old Cambodian migrant worker, said she and her husband lost their jobs at a seafood processing factory in the southern province of Songkhla early last month.

Their employer suddenly stopped hiring them and gave them a final pay cheque. All of that money has since been spent, she said. Living from month to month, the final portion of the money was soon gone after paying rent, buying food and covering the basic necessities.

The couple needed to borrow money to send home to Cambodia to care for their four children being raised by their maternal grandmother. Worried their children would not have anything to eat, Channy said she had no choice but get a loan.

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