Craig Greenfield moved his family to a Cambodian slum. But don’t call him a missionary

From living in open community with drug addicts to raising his family in a Cambodian slum, Craig Greenfield has spent decades living in some of the poorest places on earth. It has caused him to wrestle with weighty issues around money, mission and multiculturalism 

Craig Greenfield has spent most of his adult life between the slums of Cambodia and Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside – the latter was once described by a Canadian newspaper as “four blocks of hell”.

The New Zealand-born social entrepreneur (he prefers the term to ‘missionary’) didn’t do it alone; his wife and two small children came along for the ride. It takes a certain type of person to make their home among some of the most disadvantaged people in the world, but to do it with your young family? Is that God, or insanity?