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
Nice choice of music, Davíd.
ReplyDeletehey dave i think that what u do is a very great thing for all of us who have suffered or are suffering pshycological trauma of being amputated, i myself about 7 months ago had my left foot amputated and i'm living in guatemala, born in guatemala but raised in new york.I'm contacting you cause of Ben Blecha, CPO
ReplyDeletewww.skyprosthetics.com, who gve me the name of your website, unfortunitly i am not financially well and i need help in getting my prosthetic and i have not found any help, i have gone to a privte association called AGREL who is helped by the american red cross but all they have done is have me run on a one foot wild goose chase. if you can help me or provide me with more info on how i can get a free prosthetic or an economic one i would a appreciate it from the bottom of my heart!! your trully. Edward Asturias, my email; ed2lv@yahoo.com