https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_d0diYUTo
This is Chen Sokha, who until a few years ago spent her days scavenging at Phnom Penh’s Stung Meanchey dump. Now she’s a student at a prestigious international school in the capital. She’s even been named one of Newsweek magazine’s top 150 women.
She was featured in a documentary of inspiring girls around the world called Ten By Ten, and earlier this year visited the US, where she met the US First Lady, Michelle Obama.