Trop and his siblings never had a home of their own. Without the kindness of friends, they would have been living on the street.
Trop is the youngest of three children, whose parents died when the children were small. They went to live with their grandmother, who worked as a cake seller, but she had no house so they used to live with the neighbours. Trop was happy to help his grandmother sell cakes, and to clean the house.
He says, “I like Phnom Penh because it is a happy place and easy to live in. The thing I like most is studying.”