Angelfish is a swimming programme designed to help disabled and deprived children in Cambodia to enjoy the benefits that water can bring. Cambodia is a developing country still emerging from a brutal past, and has very few facilities to help its most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

There are currently 40,000 landmine amputees in Cambodia: the highest number of people with amputated limbs in the world. Protracted war has left millions of unexploded landmines across the country. 30,000 Cambodians suffer from polio and other disabilities, and 165,000 cases of HIV were reported in 2001.

Despite Cambodia's long coastline, Mekong river and Tonle Sap lake, which sits at the heart of Cambodian transport and geography, there is no co-ordinated swimming programme for children or adults. Some children learn with their friends, but many drown by way of floods in the rainy season and overloaded boats. No water therapy programme exists, or has existed, for disabled children.

We need you to help us raise the funds to set up a programme in Cambodia so that we can bring life skills, health benefits and, perhaps most importantly, some enjoyment and fun to a people trying to shake off their dark history and hidden mines. Swimming has been proven to help and support disabled children to exercise little-used limbs and enjoy the freedom of moving in water. Sport also has a long history of providing an enjoyable outlet for frustrated and disadvantaged children.

It's been done in England for decades; hundreds of disabled children have benefited in heated pools in the West. We want to bring what we believe is a human right - the opportunity to get in the water - to everybody, no matter where they're from or how many limbs they have.