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Khoy Prokrotey can\u2019t help but help. A couple of decades into a career in ecotourism in Cambodia, she\u2019s found plenty of reasons to.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in the day as a trainer working with ecotourism projects and NGOs, Khoy had the opportunity to travel around a lot of Cambodia<\/a>. And when she wasn\u2019t working, she\u2019d keep exploring, often by motorbike on overnight jaunts into the Cambodian jungle. Wherever she went, for work or for fun, she met lots of people, but it was the women she was most curious about.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I would see the local women who are struggling because their husbands work outside the house, but the women still work very hard in the fields or farms,\u2019 she recalls. \u2018But when they break up or the husband dies, they become a single mother and they struggle with no job and no money.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Especially in parts of rural Cambodia, divorced or widowed women not only face potential economic challenges if their partner had been the sole income earner, they also often face a social stigma as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Helping not just local women, but visitors too<\/h2>\n

On her travels, Khoy would also meet foreign women visiting Cambodia from abroad. \u2018I would ask them what they feel when they travel alone,\u2019 she says. \u2018They say in some places they don\u2019t feel safe at night.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Then I said, okay, I need to do something to help women on both sides.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2017 she came up with the concept of a tuk-tuk business that would employ local women and also provide a service to travellers, especially female travellers. She started with one tuk-tuk and three drivers. Today her company Driver Srey has three tuk-tuks and 12 drivers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Khoy Prokrotey, owner of Driver Srey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2024, Intrepid travellers can hop aboard one of those tuk-tuks for a tour around the Angkor Wat complex. Travellers will be collected at their hotel by one of Khoy\u2019s drivers and head off for a tour, stopping at three temples \u2013 Angkor Wat, Bayon and the jungle-covered Ta Prohm \u2013 where the group will hop off and explore with their local leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back at the tuk-tuks, travellers are handed a cool towel and take a seat back on board for an open-air ride to their next stop.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Intrepid senior product manager Dyan Mckie recently got a chance to try this experience. While tours of the complex are typically done via minivan, tuk-tuks are another option, though it\u2019s unusual to see a woman at the handlebars.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Many of the male tuk-tuk drivers doing the same route looked on in mild shock and surprise,\u2019 Dyan recalls. \u2018Other women who checked tickets at the gates of Angkor were pleasantly surprised and happy to see a female driver. Only then you realise and fully appreciate what these women are doing.\u2019<\/p>\n

Full speed ahead for Khoy<\/h2>\n

When Khoy first started her company, she set out to recruit drivers. \u2018I met a few other women who were motorbike drivers. I watched them drive to the market and back, and I saw they had skills.\u2019 She\u2019d speak with them and learn more about them, their lives and how they earn an income \u2013 if they do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I want to support women,\u2019 Khoy says. \u2018Not only just to empower them, but to support them and their livelihood, too,\u2019 she says. \u2018And solo travellers can come here and I give them care. I try to give my team a plan to take care of women travellers.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outside of this Intrepid experience, most of Driver Srey\u2019s customers are solo women travellers, and many have expressed how big a factor safety is for them as they travel (including some reports of unwanted advances from male drivers in the past). Khoy will coordinate directly with travellers to arrange for one of her drivers to take them out not just for tours, but for airport, hotel and restaurant pickups and drop-offs, too.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It is important we take care of them,\u2019 she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Khoy has no plans to hit the brakes. \u2018I want my business everywhere, not just Siem Reap,\u2019 she says. \u2018I want this step by step. I will grow this thing bigger and empower them.\u2019<\/p>\n

Take a ride around Angkor Wat with Driver Srey on Essential Cambodia and Real Cambodia. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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