A student from a floating village steers a school boat on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
Students arrive at a school in a floating village on the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
Students from a floating village on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake return to their homes in a school boat on Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
The floating village of Kampong Prahok on the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
Students participate in a counting exercise at a school in one of the floating villages of Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake on Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
KAMPONG PRAHOK, Cambodia (AP) — On Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, getting anywhere has always meant navigating the water. It isn’t any different for schoolchildren.
Most mornings, a gas-powered boat chugs through Kampong Prahok floating village, steered by students often no older than those climbing aboard. They pull up alongside floating homes, as peers in crisp uniforms clamber aboard, careful to keep their backpacks dry.
The is , making it more expensive for students to get to school.
Some children are quitting school and starting to work to help their families make ends meet. in also are struggling to fund education initiatives and school meal programs that help keep millions of children in classrooms.
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