The Malta Postal Museum and Arts Hub is hosting a photographic exhibition on life in Cambodia by Jacob Sammut.

Entitled Phnom Penh – The Struggling Smiles, the exhibition captures the daily lives of thousands of street children in the Cambodian capital, a city still reeling from the devastation wrought by Pol Pot and the legacy of the Khmer Rouge.

Today, almost 40 years later, abuse and extreme poverty are still the rule of the day. Yet, Sammut finds that the smiles on the faces of the homeless and orphaned children in Phnom Penh defy this daily hardship.

The exhibition runs until April 17. The museum at 135, Archbishop Street, Valletta,  is open from 10am to 4pm on weekdays and from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays. 

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