Veterans of the Vietnam War are helping landmine victims in Cambodia to get
mobile with a bamboo-frame wheelchair designed at Seattle University. Bamboo is
almost as strong as aluminium and is easy to repair in remote village workshops.
The chairs, which will be supplied free, are made in a Phnom Penh workshop
sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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