Pheap and her mother each earn $80 a month. They work eight hours a day, seven days a week. Pheap says working in the factory helps her mother provide for their family. It also helps support her brother and sister.
About 430,000 Cambodians under 18 years-of-age are employed. Half of them work in what the International Labor Organization calls the worst forms of child labor. They include agriculture, salt production, housework, fishing and brick-making.