Author: Raksmey Hong

In 2013, a video clip of an 11-year-old girl without limbs – who used the small span of her left “arm” to hold a pen with her neck and practice beautiful Khmer penmanship in a classroom in Battambang province’s Samlout district – won the hearts of netizens all throughout the Kingdom. That video of her has been re-shared every year since then. That girl is Sen Sreyhorng, who was born with tetra-amelia syndrome – a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs. A simple reason motivated Sreyhorng to go to school: “I didn’t want to stay home…