Indian artificial limb project will provide 600 free appendages for landmine victims

• Published date: 10 March 2023
• Publication title: The Phnom Penh Post

As part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of India-Cambodia diplomatic relations, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) and the Indian embassy co-launched a one-month India for Humanity campaign to produce and fit artificial limbs to the victims of landmines.

The campaign - which will see at least 600 artificial limbs fitted by the end of March - was launched on March 3 at a vocational training school for the disabled in Banteay Meanchey province. The event was attended by Indian ambassador Devyani Khobragade, provincial governor Um Reatrey and CMAA vice-president Prum Sopheak Mongkol.

Sopheak Mongkol urged further cooperation with the Indian embassy to help the victims of landmines and explosive remnants of war.

He thanked the Indian government for extending its help to handicapped persons in Cambodia and lauded the work done by the Indian NGO Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) - the world's 'largest' organisation for the rehabilitation of lower limb handicapped persons.

'We need this collaboration to continue into the future, as the Kingdom has a large number of amputees, most of whom were the victims of mines and explosive remnants of war,' he said.

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