Along the red grovel road to a Stieng community in Krorng village, there are wooden houses with two floors pass by. Those houses seem like human faces with two big eyes and one tongue stuck out from a big mouth. There are so many modern farming machines under each house, which clearly shows that they are focusing on agriculture as their main job. Moreover, around each house, there are different types of tree fruits, such as cassava trees, mango trees, coconut trees, sweet potato trees, banana trees, papaya trees, jack fruit trees, star gooseberry trees, passion trees, and sugar-apple trees. Plastic is not popular in this community, so the environment there is clean. The village passed by, outside the village, there are a lot of rice fields lay on the ground waiting for people to grow rice.
The solar panels are on each of every house in this village. Stieng people use them to light up the darkness at night. Each light that bright up each house, together is the stars in the sky at night time. However, time by time, the light from the solar panel go faint and faint. The sunshine from the sun clearly shows that it is morning. As usual, the cockcrow started at an early time around 3 AM to wake everyone up from the lazy bed. In Kakdek, (the twelfth month of the year which also the coldest month in Cambodia) around 4 to 5 AM, there are flames from the fire camps which everyone in this village, Stieng people do to heat themselves up from the coldness of this season.
In this community, the environment is clean, everyone lives in peace even though they don’t have everything. Not much different from their owners, dogs also can get along even though there is a big amount of them. This makes this community different its own way.
Written by Chan Reaksmey Sor