Cambodia - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Northern Thailand - page 405

TOP FIVE: GOOD-CAUSE SHOPPING

The stores here sell high-quality silk items and handicrafts to provide the disabled and disenfranchised
with valuable training for future employment, plus a regular flow of income to improve lives.

Daughters MAP GOOGLE MAP ( www.daughtersofcambodia.org ; 65 St 178; 9am-6pm Mon-Sat)
Fashionable clothes, bags and accessories made with ecofriendly cotton and natural dyes by former
prostitutes and victims of sex trafficking.

Friends n' Stuff MAP GOOGLE MAP (215 St 13; 11am-9pm) The closest thing to a charity shop
or thrift store in Phnom Penh, with a good range of new and secondhand products sold to generate
money to help street children.

Nyemo MAP GOOGLE MAP (41 St 450; 8am-5pm) Quality silk and soft toys for children. It

helps disadvantaged women return to work.

Rajana MAP GOOGLE MAP ( www.rajanacrafts.org ; 170 St 450; 7am-6pm Mon-Sat,
10.30am-5pm Sun) Promoting fair wages and training, Rajana has fine jewellery, bamboo crafts, qual-
ity T-shirts, kids' clothing, good-looking skirts and dresses - you name it.

Watthan Artisans MAP GOOGLE MAP ( www.wac.khmerproducts.com ; 180 Norodom Blvd;
8am-6.30pm) Silk and other products, including wonderful contemporary handbags, made by land-
mine and polio victims.

Shopping
An affirmation of identity, the krama (checked scarf) is worn around the neck, shoulders
and waist of nearly every Khmer. The scarves make superb souvenirs or gifts, as do Cam-
bodia's sculptures and handicrafts.

Bookshops

BOOKSTORE

Monument Books
MAP GOOGLE MAP
(111 Norodom Blvd; 7am-8.30pm) This is the best-stocked bookshop in town, with almost
every Cambodia-related book available, a superb maps and travel section, plus a wi-fi-en-
abled branch of Blue Pumpkin cafe.

D's Books
MAP GOOGLE MAP

BOOKSTORE