Vision

Prosthetics Outreach Foundation is a catalyst for change in developing countries. Our goal is ensuring that children and adults suffering from limb loss and deformity have lifetime access to high-quality orthopedic and rehabilitation services. By establishing local capacity to help people walk for a lifetime, POF permanantly transforms peoples' lives.

How People Lose Mobility

Wars have devastated thousands of lives in many developing countries. Deliberate amputations and landmines take a terrible toll, claiming victimes for decades after the shooting stops.

Work and transportation accidents also cause much limb loss in developing countries. Because of inadequate health care, untreated infections frequently end in forced amputations.

Birth defects and diseases, including polio, cerebral palsy and clubfoot, affect hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

Natural disasters, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons, can leave thousands of amputees in their wake.

Effects of Lost Mobility

Lost mobility usually means a lifetime of poverty and dependence. The disabled are often the poorest of the poor. Unable to support themselves, amputees and other mobility impaired children and adults often rely on hand-outs and are condemned to lives of neglect.

Restoring Mobility and Hope

Over 20 years, POF has helped more than 15,000 children and adults to walk again. A few dollars worth of metal and plastic can restore mobility, independence, and hope to amputees and others with severe orthopedic disabilities.