Picture: A young girl is put in a cast to manufacture a tailor-made corset in order to treat her deformations.
The Vietnam War has been over for over thirty years but for many people and especially children it still lives on. The US Airforce used during the war a chemical called Agent Orange which de-foiled the jungle and therefore many Vietnamese soldiers were exposed to this aggressive chemical. The long-term effects are genetic transformations in their children so that they have mental and physical disabilities. One specialist centre which treats such children according to international standards is the Vietcot Centre in Hanoi. On one hand it treats children and on the other hand it trains teenagers in prosthesis and orthopedics. With orthopedics and prosthetics those children are given another lease of life and at the same time gives support the burdened parents. And the help comes cheap: a child can be completely treated for less than 1’000$. The centre receives support by the NGO Greencross with headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland.
For more information about the work of Greencross, visit their website: http://www.greencross.ch/
Picture: Young rehab centre staff working on a prostethics with international equipment.
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