There is a heartbreaking story behind this young guy who is walking happily with his first prosthesis. He never expected to ever lose his leg. Before he had his leg amputated, he was an electrician and worked around rural areas. He used to travel with a motorbike to...
Let me present this little kid who was abandoned by his parents, has no one to care for him and was involved in a severe railway road accident when he was three years old. He was playing around the railway road one evening when he fell asleep using the railway as a...
It has been almost a year since we opened our prosthetics and orthotics workshop in Myanmar. Although we’re still a pretty new workshop, we are happy that people in Myanmar are starting to know us and that we’re able to provide high technology P&O devices to the...
We have officially opened our P&O Workshop since beginning of November. It’s an exciting step, after more than 3 years of preparation. Our goal is to improve people with disability’s lives in Myanmar, by giving a high-level service and technology they are looking...
Our P&O (Prosthetic& Orthotic) Workshop is ready to welcome our first patients. However before we officially open, we want to evaluate what are the best technologies to use with a price that is affordable for our patients. Therefore, we are currently running...
In coming to Myanmar, our goal was to open a fitting centre to help people with disabilities, and here we are at the big first step with a project to build our future orthopedic workshop. Initially, looking for premises to rent, we could hardly imagine starting our...
I looked up from the computer on my lap to the middle-aged man sitting across from me, who was staring thoughtfully at the anatomy poster on the wall, massaging the scar line on his newly amputated leg, “Why do you want a prosthesis?” I asked, prompted by the...
Time is flying; it’s already been one month since our adventure in the jungle. We went there for about ten days to a village with an orthopedic workshop that was created in order to help people who lost their limbs because of the civil war and landmines. Our goal was...