I'm here because of Roger.

On my first day in kindergarten, my teacher, Mrs Pickering, sat me next to a boy named Roger. Roger had thick, Coke-bottle glasses, and scrunched his nose to squint whenever he concentrated. I remember clearly the wrinkle lines between the two lenses of his glasses.

“Roger can’t see colours,” Mrs Pickering told me. “So I need you to help him pick the right pencils when we are colouring in. Can you do that?”

I nodded. For the rest of the year, when we were colouring in the sky, I picked out the blue pencil for him. For the grass, the green pencil.

Roger and Mrs Pickering taught me valuable lessons. Not everyone is the same. We all do things differently. And sometimes, all it takes is a little bit of help for someone else to do things just like you can.

Here in Cambodia, most children with disabilities don't get the same opportunity to sit next to other children and learn. At OIC: The Cambodia Project, we're changing this.

Despite a huge need, there is not one single Cambodian speech therapist. In my own country of Australia, there are over 6,000. We will train the first generation of Cambodian speech therapists by the year 2020.

To find out more about how we're going to this, visit http://oiccambodia.org.