2-year-old one of many being helped by Hearts Without Boundaries

11/27/2009
By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer
Long Beach Press-Telegram

Hers are the eyes that drive Peter Chhun and give Hearts Without Boundaries its mission.

Socheat Ngor (picture) is 2 years old. She is one of 17 children on a waiting list to receive help from Chhun's fledgling organization, that seeks to treatment and surgeries for children with ailing hearts.

Ngor lives in poverty in Takeo Province in Cambodia, south of Phnom Penh. Her father, Pin Kean, is a farmer.

When Ngor was 4 months old, she was diagnosed with not one but two significant holes in her heart.

Her parents have been told she cannot be helped in Cambodia.

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