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[Jul 25 '07] Call for Volunteers for POF 2008 Annual Auction |
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Our fifth annual auction is set for Saturday, March 1, 2008. This event is a vital annual fundraiser that helps support our programs.
Being a POF volunteer allows you to make a difference in the lives of amputees in developing countries, while also interacting with a wonderful group of energetic and hardworking individuals
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[Jul 23 '07] Save the Date for POF 2008 Annual Auction |
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On the heels of our wonderfully successful fourth annual auction – Coming Together – we are pleased to announce that we have confirmed the date and venue for our upcoming fifth annual auction. The auction will take place on Saturday, March 1st 2008, and will once again be held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA.
Be sure to save this date. We look forward to making our next auction even more successful than the last with your generous support.
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[Jun 22 '07] Doctors Attend Ponseti Training in Ha Tay, Vietnam |
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On May 19-20, 2007 teams of medical professionals from Son La Provincial Hospital and Ba Vi Orthopedic Technical Rehabilitation Center (OTRC) gathered in Ha Tay to learn and practice the Ponseti Method, an early-intervention treatment for congenital clubfoot. The training seminar, sponsored by POF, was a first step in POF’s Clubfoot Treatment Initiative to help local medical institutions identify and correct clubfoot in infants, before the condition becomes a crippling disability. |
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[Jun 06 '07] Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Live in Concert June 19! |
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Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, the world-renowned band, will play on Tuesday, June 19th in honor of International World Refugee Day at the Triple Door in downtown Seattle. The Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) is a proud sponsor of this event.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this spirited and infectious fusion of traditional West African music, roots reggae and rhythmic folk music.
Members of the band had to flee the devastating civil war that engulfed their country from 1991-2002 and resulted in thousands of children and adults losing their limbs. In 2006, POF opened a prosthetics center in Makeni, Sierra Leone, that provides prosthetic care for children and adult amputees throughout the country’s northern rural areas.
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[Jun 01 '07] Three Legs Across America: the Great Plains |
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This will be the third year of Three Legs Across America. POF supporters Nancy Nelson and Dan Fender will start in Rawlins, Wyoming, where they left off in their multi-year tandem bicycle ride across the U.S. Nancy is a below-the-knee amputee, hence the Three Legs moniker. Friends, family and POF supporters have made generous donations in honor of this ride, all earmarked for artificial legs for Vietnamese amputees.
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[Apr 10 '07] POF-AOFAS Surgical Project in its Sixth Year |
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In May-June 2007, two teams of volunteer orthopedic surgeons will travel to Vietnam for the sixth annual surgical project sponsored by the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation and American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society. Their goal is to perform much-needed orthopedic surgeries for 60 patients, most of them children, suffering from lower-limb deformities such as clubfoot. Amputees in need of revision surgeries will also number among the recipients of these life-changing surgeries, without which they are unable to be fit with a prosthetic limb. |
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[Apr 09 '07] POF Sponsors First Clubfoot Identification Seminar |
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On March 6, 2007, POF sponsored the first Clubfoot Identification Seminar in remote Son La Province. The seminar was organized in partnership with the Son La Committee for Population and Family to train nurses on early detection of clubfoot in babies. |
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[Jul 01 '06] Three Legs Across America 2007: The Great Plains |
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August 3, 2007
Dear Friends,
We are getting ready to start the third segment of "Three Legs Across America." For those of you who are unfamiliar, Three Legs is a multi-year, cross-country tandem bicycle ride being made by Nancy Nelson (a below-the-knee-amputee) and Dan Fender (a bike riding nut). In addition to having a great time, we are using this as an opportunity to raise funds for new legs for Vietnamese amputees. |
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[Dec 12 '05] Orthotic Device Changes a Life |
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Hien is a 12-year-old young lady who contracted polio when she was four. After eight years of being mobility impaired, Hien is now able to walk again thanks to a new orthotic device. |
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[Nov 18 '05] Sierra Leone Rehabilitation Center Under Construction - Interim Services Begin |
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Construction of the new Prosthetics and Orthotics Rehabilitation Center in Sierra Leone is underway!
While the Center is under construction, POF has made arrangements with World Hope International, another international nonprofit organization active in Sierra Leone, to use a work bench at their woodworking workshop in Makeni to provide interim prosthetic services for amputees. |
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[Oct 31 '05] A Pod Foot Lets Thi Thinh Farm Easily Again |
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In October of 2005, the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation reached Thi Thinh’s village on a four-day mobile outreach operation. The team brought her a new prosthetic leg, the first one in her lifetime!
Thi Thinh’s leg included a unique type of foot --the pod foot. |
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[Sep 15 '05] Sierra Leone Groundbreaking Event a Success! |
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POF celebrated the groundbreaking for the new POF Sierra Leone Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday, September 14th. Over fifty friends, supporters, board members and advisory committee members gathered in Seattle, Washington, to enjoy Sierra Leonean food, learn more about POF's work in the country, and mark this important milestone in POF's history. |
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[Sep 12 '05] Mariatu Will Soon Take Her First Steps in Sierra Leone |
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Mariatu is a cute, two-year-old Sierra Leonean girl who has yet to take her first steps because a landmine stole her left leg before she learned to walk. Her parents recently learned about POF's new initiative in Makeni and are thrilled that their daughter will soon be able to walk for the first time. |
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[Jul 19 '05] Local Orthopedic Surgeon Volunteers to Help Disabled in Vietnam Walk Again |
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Seattle, WA — July 19, 2005 — For the fourth year in a row, Dr. Pierce Scranton, of Issaquah, WA, led a team of volunteer surgeons from the United States to Vietnam to surgically correct debilitating limb deformities and revise amputations for 54 patients, mostly children. Says Dr. Scranton: "It is a very emotional experience to see children walking when they couldn't before; to see their legs and feet straight when before they were crooked; and to see amputees, who could only hop on painful stumps, walk effortlessly on a new prosthesis." |
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[May 31 '05] Three Legs Across America |
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Couple Rides Across America to Raise Funds for Other Amputees. In June 2005, Nancy C. Nelson and her husband, Dan Fender, will be leaving Fort Camby State Park in Washington to set out on a challenging bicycle ride across the United States. |
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[Mar 05 '05] POF Celebrates 15th Anniversary! |
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More than 170 friends and supporters of the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) celebrated the organization's 15th anniversary with a dinner auction in March 2005. By the end of the evening and after a sizzling live auction, POF had raised more than $67,000! |
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[Jun 22 '04] POF Starts Work in Sierra Leone |
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Between June 14 and June 21, 2004, POF's Technical Director, Raymond Pye, visited Sierra Leone to conduct an assessment of the prosthetic service needs and to establish contact with local NGO's serving amputees. He also met with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation... |
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