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Photos: Rising energy prices disrupt education on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake

Children on Tonle Sap sacrifice education, with many working to help their families cover increasing fuel costs.

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The floating village of Kampong Prahok on the Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo]

Students participate in a counting exercise at a school in one of the floating villages of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo]

When families reach a financial breaking point, they tend to go into “triage”, keeping some children enrolled while pulling others out to work. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo]

If the war continues, it could push up to 23.4 million more children into poverty by the end of the year, about 80 percent of them in Africa and Asia. [Aniruddha Ghosal/AP Photo]

Nhim San, left, and her daughter, Sou Sreynich, at their home. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo]

Sou Sreynich, centre, collects firewood with her mother and sister near their home on Tonle Sap. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo]