tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13034002209161917712012-02-16T19:13:59.956+09:30Christine Kingnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303400220916191771.post-25662275935890393522008-02-24T13:21:00.016+09:302009-08-22T14:30:20.060+09:30<a href="http://reversethecursecambodia.googlepages.com/landmine-aug09.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 424px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 344px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://reversethecursecambodia.googlepages.com/landmine-aug09.jpg" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br /></span><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Most of us are so blessed that we can't imagine what life would be like to survive the trauma of a landmine blast.<br /><br />Take a moment, close your eyes and imagine... </span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">The blast from nowhere. The shock. The awful pain. Being transported up to 100kms in the back of a rattling old vehicle across dried out river beds (not proper roads) to the nearest hospital. No food provided in the hospital, we have to rely on family or friends to bring us food.</span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://reversethecursecambodia.googlepages.com/landmine2005sm_1.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></a></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://reversethecursecambodia.googlepages.com/landmine2005sm_1.jpg"></a><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Yet, surviving all this does not make us a hero with our picture and story proudly shown on a TV news programme or in the newspaper.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://reversethecursecambodia.googlepages.com/landmine2005sm_1.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></a></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Instead no-one can bear to look at us. We have become one of Cambodia's estimated 40,000 chon pika - or amputees. With a population of around 11.5 million, Cambodia has one amputee for every 290 people - one of the highest ratios in the world.</span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">There is no welfare system to provide for us. Many shops won't serve us and no-one is likely to employ us.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">In shame we are forced to beg.. Our life would seem without hope without a future.</span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">The RTC (Reverse the Curse) approach is to provide counselling, training, skills and employment for landmine survivors. In providing these resources we are giving landmine survivors a hand up, so they can hold their head high as they provide for themselves and their families.</span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">RTC is seeking to raise the necessary funding to complete the factory that will provide employment for many landmine survivors. Our current facility is no longer big enough but we need approximately US$500,000 to build the new factory.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Please partner with us to complete this new stage of RTC Cambodia's development. In doing so, you will be blessed with the knowledge that you are making a difference to countless disadvantaged and damaged lives and the future prosperity of the nation of Cambodia.</span> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1303400220916191771-2566227593589039352?l=rtc3cambodiadonate.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christine Kingnoreply@blogger.com0