Be Happy and Smile

Channtey Heng

Ever since I was born into a poor, broken family in a small village in Cambodia, I have always needed to fight barriers and discrimination. When I was two years old I was diagnosed with polio in my right leg. This was around the time that my father left us for another woman, shirking his responsibilities to his family. My mother was very hurt, and had to work immensely hard to look after 3 children with disabilities as a sole parent.
As I grew up, I noticed how often my mother w...