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Pak Arn’s story
23:13 GMT, Wednesday, 20th December 2006Fund Raising's blog
by Fiona Morgan, Occupational Therapy mentor, Cambodia Pak Arn is a 14 year old boy from an isolated rural village in Kampot province, where he lives with his parents, four brothers and two sisters. When he was just six months old Arn contracted polio, paralysing both his legs. While he has ne...
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Sri Lanka School of Prosthetics & Orthotics
23:15 GMT, Tuesday, 19th December 2006Fund Raising's blog
News from our partnership project in Sri Lanka by Ryoko Tsutsumi INTAKE 2006 At the request of the Ministry of Health, the second student recruitment was open to those already working in the field but who lacked the necessary academic requirements. Thirteen students were accepted from both Gove...
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Fundraising Awards 2006
23:13 GMT, Monday, 18th December 2006Fund Raising's blog
Our wonderful volunteer fundraisers have done some amazing things this year: cycling, singing, parachute jumping, running, knitting and envelope-stuffing to name a few! In recognition of the huge contribution made by our volunteer fundraisers, we have launched the Cambodia Trust Fundraising Award...
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Rath Rorn's story
18:12 GMT, Thursday, 14th December 2006Fund Raising's blog
We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported our work in 2006.Thousands of people have benefited from our work in the last year - people like Rath Rorn. Rath Rorn is 52 and has a daughter of 16. They live beside the busy highway No 5, between Phnom Penh and Battambang. Rorn is a...
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Julio’s story
23:11 GMT, Wednesday, 13th December 2006Fund Raising's blog
by Faiz-ur Rehman, Prosthetist-Orthotist, ASSERT, East Timor Julio Soares Pereira is 25. He got amputation in 1992 due to cancer. He depended on a crutch for locomotion. As disability is considered a sin in Timor Leste, so the attitude of society towards the disabled is not good. Due to his disab...
