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03 JULY 2006 - KOKY, CAMBODIA: Prosthetic feet at the Artificial Leg Production and Rubber Processing factory in Koky, Cambodia. This is the only factory in Cambodia that makes artificial feet. Feet made here are exported to Korea, Thailand, China and Burma. The factory used to be tired recapping factory that was abandoned and fell into disrepair after the Khmer Rouge captured Cambodia. The current owner was an employee before the war and started making prosthetic feet with the help of several NGOs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. Photo by Jack Kurtz

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03 JULY 2006 - KOKY, CAMBODIA: Prosthetic feet at the Artificial Leg Production and Rubber Processing factory in Koky, Cambodia. This is the only factory in Cambodia that makes artificial feet. Feet made here are exported to Korea, Thailand, China and Burma. The factory used to be tired recapping factory that was abandoned and fell into disrepair after the Khmer Rouge captured Cambodia. The current owner was an employee before the war and started making prosthetic feet with the help of several NGOs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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