Mony Nop knows what it’s like to go hungry.

Born in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, Nop and his family survived the Killing Fields for the first six years of his life. After his family fled the country, he spent the next five years in refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines, where disease and starvation were rampant. In 1983, he and his family arrived in the U.S. “penniless and without the ability to speak English.” 

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