Restoring Mobility - Rebuilding Lives

POF creates opportunities for children and adults in developing countries who suffer from limb loss and limb deformities to lead more fulfilling lives. POF provides access to prosthetics, orthopedic surgery, physical rehabilitation, and non-medical assistance, such as micro-lending.

We work primarily in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone Civil war created thousands of amputees. Mr. Gabrilla Sesay calls the microloan he used to start his bike shop "the life cable of my life."

Vietnam Prosthetics and clubfoot treatement restore mobility to children and adults, including Lo Thi Phuong.

Bangladesh POF provides prosthetic and orthotic care to amputees and others with limb deformities

Lasting Solutions

To effectively address the lifelong rehabilitation needs of amputees and other mobility impaired children and adults in developing countries, POF advocates:

•	Training people in developing countries to fabricate highly functional, comfortable artificial limbs and other orthopedic devices, so that these countries can eventually meet the needs of their own disabled people without external assistance.
•	Manufacturing prosthetic and other orthopedic devices in developing countries, so that these devices are appropriately designed and can be made inexpensively with locally available resources.
•	Broadening access to orthopedic services for poor amputees and other orthopedically disabled children and adults, especially for those living in rural and remote areas, so that they can fully reintegrate into their communities and lead active, productive lives.

We focus our efforts on developing countries where wars, landmines and accidents take the limbs of tens of thousands of men, women and children each year, and disease and birth defects cause debilitating limb deformities that prevent many from walking.

Whatever the cause, poor, disabled children and adults need assistance to regain their ability to walk, work and live a normal life.