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A NEW WHEELCHAIR  
   

A NEW WHEELCHAIR

Luong trying out her new Lifestart donated wheelchair. She has a great sense of humour and often dinks (gives a lift to ) some of the other girls on her lap! and then roars with laughter.
THE LOVELY MISS LUONG'S STORY

August 17th 2008
During the last year or so of the American War (as it is termed in Vietnam) Luong was a happy twelve-year old living with her family in a village thirty kilometres from Hoi An. Then one fateful day a bomb was dropped so close to her family home that it was instantly incinerated. Whilst the rest of her family scrambled out of the inferno relatively unscathed, Luong's lower body took part of the bla ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Victoria

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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Tot: 0.18s; Tpl: 0.003s; cc: 6; qc: 66; dbt: 0.0693s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.3mb