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distributed strictly within Cambodia

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The numbers are impressive and tragic all at once. None of these components will go to waste and it is all to be distributed strictly within Cambodia.

Pik 1: components for, I believe, a BK (below-the-knee) prosthesis

Pik 2: Hinged steel strapping for the outside of orthosis, principally for polio victims. Incidence is much lower now, but they are still in their thousands

The ICRC

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An enormous amount of labor and expertise involved. The gent on top is an AK amp too. The ICRC hires them and trains them wherever they can.

Everything gets recycled

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Everything gets recycled. Above are the tailings from both production and the fitting of sockets. This bag is down from their clinic in Battambang.

Below, the pellet-like final product which will get re-melted and re-moulded.

Bravo!

New Boneyard

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New Boneyard. All those new components will be shipped to the ICRC’s centers throughout Cambodia and to the Cambodia Trust too. That’s Channat, the Factory Director. Many thanks to both Channat and to Didier Cooreman, the Head of Physical Rehab for both the rare chance to tour the factory and, more, for the opportunity to train rehab therapists and teach amps mirror therapy wherever they operate in Cambodia. Chapeau to the whole organization here which is doing a powerful world of good!

A LEG FOR A LEG

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rself with a sudden burning need for an artificial limb, you may get the socket fit at a few other clinics throughout the Kingdom, but the materials and components will all come from the ICRC. The other big player in the assembly and fitment of prosthetics/orthotics here is The Cambodia Trust (another extremely meritorious organization), but their components come from the ICRC and the ICRC give them to the CT, gratis. (more…)