This is the story of a young boy named Yin. The peo-ple in Yin's village call him Yin Kwin, which roughly translates as Yin the 'cripple' because he suffers from polio. Yin is now 13 years old; he is from the Phnong ethnic group and lives in Roka Village in Mondulkiri Province. The government recently built a primary school there in 2004. Although Yin had enrolled there in that year, he was completely dependent on his father to give him a ride to school every morning on his bicycle along with his two younger brothers who also enrolled there. As a result, he and his broth-ers were absent frequently and eventually they all dropped out after two or three months.

In 2007, Yin was identified, through the ESCUP Pro-gram's mapping activity, to get children in school. Seeing that Yin's legs had been affected by polio, pro-gram personnel were able to contact Handicap Inter-national to make a wheelchair for Yin. Some older children at the school helped to clear a path from the village to the school so that Yin could wheel his chair to school with the help of his two young brothers who along with Yin have re-enrolled. The other children at school also used a small grant from ESCUP to build a ramp to Yin's classroom. Yin passed Grade 1 last year and is in Grade 2 this year. He studies with some older children at break time who, through the child-to-child help network, tutor him every day. The chil-dren at the school have renamed him Yin Sobhin, which means Yin 'Dream' to show that he can try to realize his hopes and desires just like other children.