A month after it all went down I finally put together a short movie about the prosthetic arm project that we completed mid-March. Special funding from many individual donors and the Louis Berkowitz foundation along with component donations from Fillauer, LTI and Scheck & Siress made the project possible. In October 2009 we met German and Cesar, two young men with both of their arms amputated from the shoulder down due to electrical burns. It took us a few months to get the necessary supplies together and four days of hard work at the Loren Jay Mallon ROMP Guatemala clinic to finish the prosthetic arms. Chicago-area prosthetist and long-time ROMP volunteer David Rotter was the mastermind behind the prosthetic design. David and I started Sautuday morning and by Tuesday night Cesar and German and their families left the clinic with their one-of-a-kind prosthetic arms.
Check out this YouTube video to see the fabrication and fitting process with German and Cesar.
Thanks to everyone that made this project possible. Without your support German and Cesar would have never received their new arms.
David Krupa
