A Call for HELP

ROMP supporters-

Now more than ever, we need your help. The devastation of the Haitian earthquakes is incomprehensible and we want to do our part to support the people of Haiti. One of the biggest issues being discussed are the number of amputations occurring and the impact this will have on people being able to survive and rehabilitate their lives. The last statistic we heard was that there were over 100 amputations a day with more imminent as infections take hold.

The only prosthetic lab in Haiti, Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation (HHHF), was 75% demolished in the earthquake. Healing Hands for Haiti has been a long time partner of ROMP and a model we have always emulated and respected. Members of HHHF are in Haiti now assessing the damage and planning the prosthetic rehabilitation relief effort.

Please view this CNN video that discusses HHHF.

ROMP is committed to supporting HHHF and the people of Haiti in the following ways:

-Providing equipment and components to allow HHHF to rebuild their facilities
-Providing 100% of earmarked funds directly to initiatives assisting HHHF
-Organizing and mobilizing a team of volunteer practitioners and support staff to begin fitting patients in the spring

How you can help:

-Donate online: http://www.rompglobal.org/donate.php include the memo "Haiti relief"
-Spread the word and let others know that there is a way to assist the rapidly growing need for prosthetic rehabilitation in Haiti and throughout the developing world.

Equipment and Component donations can be sent to:
ROMP Donations
Attn: Mike Angelico
8641 W. 95th St.
Hickory Hills, IL 60457

Thank you,

The ROMP directors

Where to send Donated Equipment - Haiti Relief

Dear ROMP supporters,

For those of you who do not know already all donated parts and supplies should be sent to:

Equipment Donation Address:

ROMP Donations

Attn: Mike Angelico

8641 W. 95th St.Hickory Hills, IL 60457

We are collecting prosthetic parts, casting supplies (plaster and fiberglass bandages), wheelchairs, canes, crutches and walkers for our projects in Ecuador and Guatemala. We also will be sending supplies to the Haiti Relief effort through our friends at Healing Hands For Haiti. If you would like your donations to be sent to Haiti please mark your boxes clearly "ROMP/Haiti Relief". We will process your donations and keep them in our storgae units until our contacts in Haiti are ready for them to be shipped.

Please pass this message along and encourage others to sign onto this blog. I will be posting information regularly regarding the Haiti Relief Effort.

Take care,

David Krupa

Helping in Haiti

Dear ROMP supporters and volunteers,

I have received daily inquiries about how to help in Haiti. Back in 2005 I had the opportunity to volunteer with the Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation. HHHF is a wonderful rehabilitation project that acted as one of the two primary providers of O&P services for all of Haiti. Tragically, their clinic was completely destroyed by the recent earthquake. ROMP is committed to helping HHHF in any way possible. This will include sending volunteer teams and donated components. Due to the destruction of the HHHF infrastructure it is currently impossible to provide prosthetic device in Haiti. I will let all of our supporters and volunteers know of opportunities in Haiti as soon as I receive word from the HHHF directors. In the meantime, I encourage everyone to stockpile prosthetic and orthotic parts and send them to ROMP clearly labeling them as "Haiti Supplies" we will ensure that they are processed and ready to go whenever it becomes possible to work in Haiti again.

Thank you all for your willingness to help after this horrible tragedy. Please stay in touch and forward this message to anyone who may be asking about Haiti.

David Krupa, CP

CEO - ROMP

New ROMP video of October 2009 trip

Joseph Krizinauskas has done it again. Check out his newest video post to You Tube about the ROMP volunteer team that worked a week in Guatemala this past October 2009. Happy New Year to everyone and thank you Joseph for your inspirational video.

Guatemala, Range of Motion Project, October Clinic 2009

David Krupa