From Cambodia to Bowdoin: Two Unlikely Students Recount Their Journeys to College [in the U.S]

May 1, 2013 by Rebecca Goldfine



Cambodia exchange students Rada Chhorn and Kimsrung Lov are studying at Bowdoin this year



As young girls growing up in Cambodia’s countryside, both Kimsrung
Lov and Rada Chhorn faced steep odds in obtaining a college education.

Lov’s father, a small business owner in a town 57 miles outside of
Phnom Penh, believed that because girls were only destined to