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Cambodia-Demons Beneath the Earth
Photodocumentary by Rachel Pfotenhauer
Thuy Svey Bot opened up her own restaurant 2 hours outside of Phnom Penh 3 years after her accident. Her husband stayed with her and drives a moto taxi.
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Seak Ling, 36, stepped on a landmine when 16 years old while working in a mine field. A man found her and carried her 5 miles to a hospital that didn't have the euipment to amputate her leg so the next night, they took her to another hospital. She lost a lot of blood and was in the hospital for 5 months. She came to Phnom Penh and studied design, found a job at the VVAF Rehab Center, is married and has one boy.
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huy Srey Bot took a train in 1980 from Battombong to Phnom Penh when the train ran over a mine. She own her own restaurant and is still married to her husband for over 35 years (very rare)--both survived the Pol Pot camps. Woman helping her is a landmine victim too--an outreach coordinator for Cambodia Trust
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 Sok Eang, 28, stepped on a mine while farming. He now works at Cambodia Trust Rehab Center. Woman is an amputee from a moto accident; the other man was de-mining an area and 1 blew up.
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 Men waiting for their prosthetics to be made at the VVAF Rehab Center.
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