Sometimes, the families of blind people in Cambodia throw them out because they are very poor and they do not think they are any use. He envisages ABC raising founds for a braille library, copter training and research. But the project he feels most strongly about is the community rehabilitation programme, which he hopes to have up and running in 2002. Then there are attitudes to change, prejudices to overcome. The blind can work in factories.
Blind people can do packing jobs.
It is very easy for them. There are things they can do, but people will not employ them to do it. and school. We must change that. Boun Mao himself is currently battling to be allowed to return to university but is faced with a system which tells him blind people are not allowed, despite his braille and extensive computer skills. I go overseas and speak to other blind people and they have Masters and graduate diplomas.