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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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Blind At Nine
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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