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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health, Health Care, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, International, International Development
Mission:
Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) helps developing countries restore mobility and independence to amputees and other physically disabled children and adults by providing access to prosthetic care, orthopedic surgery, and clubfoot treatment. POF emphasizes community-based rehabilitation and the building of local capacity in developing countries through training of local personnel, in-county manufacturing of assistive devices and their components, and appropriate technology transfer. Our goal is to help developing countries care for their own disabled persons without ongoing external assistance. Since our inception, we have helped more than 16,500 disabled men, women and children around the world to walk again.
Programs:
In Vietnam, POF provides artificial limbs for amputees inremote areas through mobile outreach. POF's all-Vietnamese team travels torural villages and provides clinical services. Limbs are made with localmaterials in Vietnam by Vietnamese. Localcomponent manufacturing has expanded with support from the US Agency forInternational Development. POF sends two surgical teams annually to Vietnam to correctlimb deformities and train Vietnamese surgeons. Additionally in Vietnam, POFtrains doctors and nurses in nonsurgical treatment of infants with clubfoot. InBangladesh, POF partners with Nalta Hospital to provide prosthetic and orthoticcare to children and adults in rural areas. POF assisted the hospital inbuilding and equipping a rehabilitation center. POF continues to provideongoing technical assistance with both clinical care and local componentmanufacturing. In Sierra Leone, POF has built a rehabilitation center inpartnership with government and local groups.
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