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Three exhausted young boys sleep on a wooden bed during Election Day 2008 in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. They are among the 2% of residents living in third world countries that earn their livings collecting recyclable material. This is what Election Day 2008 looked like for them.Changingideas.org founder David Graham became inspired to help others after his son was paralyzed in a diving accident, and quickly recognized that many concerned organizations and individuals were frequently unable to successfully realize their humanitarian projects because they lacked essential business skills and other resources. Changing Ideas assists charities and other individuals, including photographers and journalists they have excellent contacts in both traditional and new media which they call upon to help selected projects.
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A Kampong Cham policeman wears an arm band identifying himself as a 2008 polling location official during voting hours at a primary school in Cambodia. Who do you think will be Cambodia's next leader?
A student gazes out the window during a class at The Ban Buamlao Primary School in Ban Buamlao, Laos. She is one of the 120 students who attend the school daily. Since textbooks are limited, students construct their own by copying information into small workbooks which are also in short supply.
Nang Chanton, a teacher at The Ban Buamlao Primary School in Ban Buamlao, Laos, observes her students during a classroom session.
A student reads aloud while another without a textbook listens at The Ban Buamlao Primary School in Ban Buamlao, Laos.
Children without hearing (deaf) use signs to communicate during classes at The National Rehabilitation Center in Vientiane Laos.
Sixteen year old Khenemone Chanmeechai stands in the doorway of the blind woman's dormitory at the National Rehabilitation Center in Vientiane, Laos. She lost her vision at age 9 as a result of conjunctivitis. By the time her parents got her to a hospital in Vientiane, the damage was irreparable and the doctors told her she would not see the world again. She gradually lost her vision. "It is so hard to live my life but I have to carry on" she says. She is now a singer in a band known as Noun Phalangchai.
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A 55-year-old ethnic Hmong and former Royal Lao Army (RLA) soldier from Xieng Khouang, Laos, gets a workout on the parallel bars adjacent to his dilapidated living quarters at The National Rehabilitation Center (NRC) in Vientiane Laos. He was among the Hmong guerrillas who fought against Pathet Lao forces in northeastern Laos in conjunction with American B-52 bombers, who attacked from the sky. The war is known as "The Secret War".
New prosthetic legs await Bao Kham and Thong Xay at The National Rehabilitation Center in Vientiane, Laos. In 2007 the Lao government estimated roughly 400 people become new victims of UXO (un-exploded ordnance) each year in Laos, although outside estimates run much higher. Many of the new victims are children under age ten who are accidentally injured while tending to farm animals or performing other chores in rural Laos.
A young girl cries out in pain after receiving a minor injury to her right hand at The Stung Meanchey Landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
