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The Cambodia Trust is an NGO working with and for disadvantaged disabled people in the developing world. Our vision: equal rights for disabled people in a barrier-free society.

We offer a helping hand out of poverty through physical rehabilitation, community-based rehabilitation, skills training and promoting equal rights. Our focus is on training local staff and building partnerships so that our projects will be sustainable in the future.


OUR PROJECTS

In Cambodia, we run 3 rehabilitation centres, a community-based rehabilitation programme, and a regional school providing accredited training for Prosthetist-Orthotists (specialists who prescribe and fit artificial limbs and braces) from across the developing world. Our rehabilitation centres are entirely staffed by Cambodians, trained to international standards.

As a result of thirty years of conflict, the destruction of the health service and millions of landmines, Cambodia has one of the world’s largest disabled populations, including an estimated 43,000 landmine survivors and 50,000 people affected by polio. In a country where the average income is less than $1 a day, disabled people are among the poorest of the poor. Discriminated against at every level of society, they are seen as ‘useless’; a burden on the family, and the community. Excluded from education and employment opportunities, they remain dependent; trapped in the cycle of poverty. Disabled women and children are particularly disadvantaged.


In Timor Leste (East Timor), one of the newest nations in the world, we have established the first national rehabilitation centre for disabled people. There are at least 6,000 people in Timor Leste who need artificial limbs or orthopaedic braces, including many people affected by leprosy. Until now, with few Prosthetic and Orthotic resources in Timor, these people have been isolated and dependent. Find out more at www.asserteasttimor.com


In Sri Lanka, we have established a national training centre for Prothetist-Orthotists. There are around 160,000 disabled people who need artificial limbs and braces in Sri Lanka, including many landmine accident survivors and victims of conflict. However, there are only 2 trained specialists in the whole of the country (both graduates of our training school in Cambodia). Sri Lanka needs a minimum of 115 Prosthetist-Orthotists to meet the needs of the disabled population. Find out more at: www.slspo.com


Our work is making a difference - but we need your help! If you can, please support our work by making a donation at www.cambodiatrust.org.uk.

$60 provides a bicycle to make it easier for a disabled child to get to school
$150 provides a wheelchair
$200 provides an artificial limb for a landmine survivor, which will last 6 months (for a child) to 2 years (for an adult)

If you can't make a donation, there are many other ways you can support our work! Help us raise awareness by:
- linking to our website www.cambodiatrust.org.uk
- subscribing to our blog cambodiatrust.org.uk/CTBlog/
- linking to our Flickr photos (please make sure to credit the Cambodia Trust and the photographer!)
- becoming a friend of the Cambodia Trust on Facebook
- joining our Groups and Causes on Facebook

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