Komar Pikar Foundation

This series of photos is about Australian volunteer Emma Glenn working in Cambodia to support the Komar Pikar Foundation. This NGO helps Cambodian children and youth with moderate to severe disabilities to live dignified lives in inclusive communities. For more info, please visit http://komarpikar.org

A child with disability

At the orphanage that we sometimes visit, there is a little girl around 7 years old who seems to have cerebral palsy. I doubt that a proper diagnosis has ever been done for her conditions. She is mainly confined to a baby's cot and is only taken out of that for feeding and having her personal hygiene taken care off. She responds really well to any attention - a bit of 'chatting' and some massage to her hands that curl up into knobs...