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Food for mobility

The provincial rehabilitation center in siem reap, cambodia, houses and feeds 30-40 landmine victims. They stay for 10 days while a polypropylene prosthetic—which costs about US $50—is made, fitted and worn in. (The prosthetics pictured are homemade from wood and shell casings.) In Cambodia, where landmines kill or maim around 80 people a day, removing a landmine from the ground costs $1,000. There remain 4-6 million unexploded landmines in the country