If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it Nean (in red) and Brother Number 2 learning the ropes before they came to be my first Cambodian Mirror...
Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itAfter the second or third time I asked, Heng just gave me a withering look and said, “Don’t ask. Up here it’s ALL landmines. No diabetes, cancer, road accidents. Every single amp you see is a bomb victim.” They are ALL ex-soldiers too; up there, one would have to surmise that they are ex-Khmer Rouge. We are up in On-Noung, Samlot District at the Trauma Care Foundation workshop. Everybody who works in the shop is an amp; there’s every size and shape of them: uni-lateral BKs, unilateral AKs, bi-laterals of every description and lots of blindness and other assorted shrapnel wounds. Everybody who works in the shop gets 50 bucks a month regardless of their disability and they all have their respective tasks. An incredibly heart-warming display of fraternity and humanity. Principally, at the moment, in the shop they will fabricate anything you need as an amp to get you on the move and get you back to work. Crutches, canes, walkers, wheelchairs from the ground up and, their flagship piece, ‘The Farmer Leg’, in all its permutations according to your amp-ness. The workshop itself is rustic, sure, but well-designed, well-kept and lovingly maintained, and so are the outbuildings and they need them because the place is also an unofficial community centre and, village-style, people will often find a spare hammock and stay the night. They stay for meals too, which is, of course, problematic for Heng as he never knows how much food to buy. Happily, a lot of it grows on trees which shade the yard. They also have one of the few generators in the area plus a compressor and a welding kit. So everybody drops by to charge car batteries (for household lights at night), pump tires etc and repair farm equipment. A great community service; Lights On In Wonderland. All the other amps drop by too, and here’s where we’re onto something, because all amps employed at the workshop responded to the therapy with great alacrity, to the point where 2 volunteered immediately for deeper explanations and to take up the torch in my absence and teach other local amps how to take their...
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