 Sierra Leonean Rehabilitation Initiative In 2005, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation launched an exciting new program in the West African nation of Sierra Leone. This rehabilitation initiative is bringing modern prosthetic care and rehabilitation services to children and adults throughout Sierra Leone's Northern Province, a region hit particularly hard by the recent civil war. As the only local or international group providing similar services in northern Sierra Leone, POF is filling a critical need and contributing to the rebuilding of this war-torn area. Country BackgroundA devastating civil war gripped Sierra Leone throughout the 1990s and into the turn of the century. Rebels gruesomely amputated the hands and feet of men, women and children, both to terrorize the population and to deter them from supporting the government. When the war ended, tens of thousands of people had lost their lives and more than two million individuals were displaced, living in large, anonymous, government-sponsored refugee camps. Today, families struggle to regain some semblance of a normal life in a world where friends and relatives have vanished, where there is little remaining economic infrastructure, and where both emotional and physical scars run deep. Read more...
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