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Posted at: 10/21/2009 6:55 PM Students Prep for Cambodia Trip(ABC 6 NEWS) -- Most college students will spend their winter break at home. But a handful of RCTC students will be tackling human rights issues half a world away. “So I'm really excited and nervous at the same time,” says Maryan Omar, a student. Maryan Omar is one of a handful of RCTC students taking a travel study trip to Cambodia over the winter break. A land of beautiful beaches and ugly realities as shown by these videos taken during last year's trip. But those realities are what the students will experience. Whether that's handing out Malaria resistant mosquito netting to villagers, digging wells for the disabled or things much, much darker. “Such as human trafficking of children or perhaps some of these new vacations that really are to have sex with children,” says Lori Halverson-Wende, an RCTC Teacher. It's that societal underbelly, and her desire to combat it, that drew Omar. So much so, she had to secure a 3-thousand dollar loan, just to make the trip. “Human trafficking has been going on for a really long time. It's actually modern slavery. But a lot of people are not really aware of it,” says Omar. Kim Sin started the trip 5 years ago. He escaped Cambodia at age 6 and now takes young minds back to his homeland. “When they go there they see reality. What is really going on in other countries. You know, that experience, being there personally give them the sense of wow, I can't believe this is happening,” says Sin. And when they come back it's a life changing experience. A life changing experience Maryan Omar is, once again, both nervous and excited about. “Nervous in a sense that I don't know what's going to happen and excited in a sense that I really get to make a difference and I'm going to be a part of something big,” says Omar. You can learn more during an open house for the Cambodia trip, which takes place next Monday, from 7 to 9 pm, inside the RCTC atrium.
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