"Hope" got a gallery on Handicap International website

From now "Project Hope" is available to see on the website of Handicap International as well. Photogallery show the children with cerebral palsy (cp) at the Handicap International rehabilitation center in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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.... other good news that the organization also ordered 2 copies of my recently published book "Hope". Thank You.

.... furthermore many thanks to everyone who ordered a copy!

I already have my book published

Dear my friends, I just published my book via Blurb about Cambodian children with congenital disorders. Please spread the words or if you are able to buy it even for present, just go ahead and make me happy. Your support will be greatly appreciated:-) Thanks,
Janos

(Furthermore I'm also looking for exhibition places and people / companies sponsoring my exhibition)

Kedves Mindenki,
Megjelent a könyvem, mely a születési rendellenességekkel világrajött kambodzsai gyermekeket mutatja be. A fotók tavaly készültek a Handicap International Cambodia Siem Reapi Rehab. Központban. Kérlek küldjétek tovább, ha gondoljátok valakit érdekelhet, esetleg ha megszeretnétek rendelni, azzal a további hasonló projektjeimhez nyújtotok támogatást. Támogatásotokat nagyra értékelem. Köszönöm,
Janó

(Továbbiakban kiállítási helyet és szponzorokat is keresek....)

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Fellow Sufferers (Khmer Landmine Victims)

Cambodia is one of the most landmine affected countries, and with over 25000 amputees it has the highest ratio per capita in the world. The Handicap International Cambodia operates a rehabilitation center in Siem Reap for mine victims where also provides physical treatment for children whose born with congenital disorders. Besides physical and mental treatment, the center fix and makes new prosthetic limbs for mine victims whose arriving the center from all around of the country.

The people who were participating with my photography project, all were mine victims and came to the center to get a new prosthetic limb. Must of them stayed approx for a week. They never met with each other before.

All the services at the Handicap International are free. Those are living far, the center pay the transportation.

Click here to see all the 16 pictures

Photo Philantrophy 2010

My photo essay can be seen on Photo Philantrohy

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Moments 3th Issue has released

So, Today "Moments" the SEA/Collectiv PDF e-zine magazine 3rd issue was released, includes a part of my series "Hope". The pictures were taken at Cambodia's one of the most busiest rehabilitation center Siem Reap, just 15 minutes drive from the world famous Angkor Archeological Park.

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Recycled

Recycled prosthetic limbs. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines maybe could use it.

Handicap International Cambodia

These days I am on assignment at the Handicap International Rehabilitation Center in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Apart from physiotherapy and the production and repair of equipment, the centers offer patients a social follow-up. Amongst these patients, there is obviously a large number of mines victims, but the centers welcome a wide diversity of people and types of disabilities, and even offer specific services to children suffering from cerebral palsy and babies suffering from clubfoot.

Today still, Cambodia remains amongst the countries more severely affected by the problem of mines and unexploded ordnance, both for the number of victims and in terms of contaminated surface. Since 1979, more than 60,000 people have either died or been wounded by these weapons, leading to 19,000 deaths and causing around 9,000 amputations.

Today, there are on average four deaths and 75 people wounded every day on Cambodian roads. 46% of wounds recorded in the country are caused by road accidents, making it the first cause of disabilities with young people under 17. This alarming data had to result in a reaction.

Source: Handicap International Cambodia

The long term lack of vaccination during and after the war and the consequences of Agent Orange would appear to be responsible for congenital disorders in Cambodia.

Agent Orange was the code name for the US military's herbicide, developed to destroy the foliage that offered a natural camouflage and protective canopy for communist troops fighting the US during the war in Vietnam.Cambodia and Laos were also targets of Agent Orange, though to a much lesser extent than Vietnam. As a result, far less is known about the environmental and human costs of defoliant use in both these countries.

Click here to see more images of the "HOPE" documentary series