Reflection for opening week

Dialogue with Dr. Annie

We organized a private session with Dr. Annie at which SIGHT members can invite our friends that share similar interest and ambition in serving the needy to have more intimate conversation with Dr. Annie. Dr. Annie is the chair and medical director of One2one charitable trust. She is also an inspirer—our motivator to persist through our project full-heartedly and to continue to serve the poor.

During the meeting, Dr. Annie kept reminding us that we—the ones sitting in the air-conditioned room—are among the top 15% of the world’s wealthy. She pointed out how well-blessed we are to have different choices of meal every day, decent clothes and live in a proper shelter while the remaining 85% is struggling to survive. Sadly, political corruption, poor distribution of resources and lack of medical and healthcare access are the main factors trapping many Cambodians in the cycle of poverty. Dr. Annie continued by showing us more pictures of the slums condition and the dwellers. These pictures very much represent the helplessness and hopelessness of those who hide in the shadow of every glorious city. Furthermore, she also suggested an insightful connotation to SIGHT—that we make effort to see the invisible and make them visible.