Nheak Reak Can Help Her Family Business

Nheak Reak, 24,  lives with her parents in Cambodia in a small remote village near the Vietnam border.  Her parents are rice farmers.  Soon after she was born, she went to a hospital for treatment for a high fever.  The physician informed her parents that Nheak Reak would not recover from her disease.  She is now not able to walk.  Sometimes she was able to travel on a friend’s oxcart, but mostly she stayed home.  After receiving the wheelchair Nheak Reak is now able to help her parents to prepare and sell Khmer noodles in front of their house.