UPDATE: Everyone should check out Transitions’ great new website at www.transitionsfoundation.org. Mobilization, health, rehabilitation, education, leadership… The Transitions Foundation is committed to making a difference in the lives of Guatemalans who may otherwise have few opportunities to grow, to learn, and to become literate and productive contributors to their Guatemalan culture. They provide rehabilitation, vocational, [...]
Tag Archives: Mobility Devices
The Exchange: Mobility Devices Needed
Posted by Laura on May 3, 2010
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Children of the Americas has an ongoing need for donations of wheelchairs, prosthetic arms, legs and upkeep of prosthetic parts on previous donations. These items are needed in Guatemala for patients in our data base with O & P needs. We see many patients on our January team trips in Guatemala that have ongoing orthotic [...]
Profile: Illini Prosthetics Team
Posted by Laura on April 5, 2010
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The Illini Prosthetics Team believes that every amputee around the world should be given a proper prosthetic arm replacement which is low-cost and functional. They are united in their cause to make this dream a reality. 25 million people around the world are missing one or more of their limbs due to landmines, violence, farming [...]
Profile: Los Medicos Voladores (Flying Doctors)
Posted by Laura on March 31, 2010
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Los Médicos Voladores (LMV) — in Spanish, the flying doctors — is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that aims to improve the health and well-being of geographically diverse peoples through education and the provision of no-cost, high-quality medical, dental, and optometric clinics. LMV serves Mexico, Central and South America, and migrant labor populations of the southwestern United [...]
Profile: Whirlwind Wheelchair International
Posted by Laura on March 11, 2010
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The World Health Organization estimates that 65 million people or 1% of the population need a wheelchair. 20 million is a conservative estimate of the number of people in the developing world who need a good wheelchair and do not have one. [World Health Organization Wheelchair Guidelines, 2008] Whirlwind defines a “good wheelchair” as safe, [...]
Profile: The MIT Mobility Lab
Posted by Laura on March 8, 2010
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The mission of the MIT Mobility Lab (M-Lab) is to fill a niche in the mobility aid community; NGOs and manufacturers in developing countries often do not have the time, resources, and skills to develop high-risk/high-payoff projects that would make drastic improvements to mobility products and the lives of disabled people. By collaborating with local [...]
Profile: Intelligent Mobility International
Posted by Laura on February 8, 2010
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Inteligencia Móvil Internacional de Guatemala or “IMI Guatemala” is a non-profit association that seeks to help people with disabilities in Guatemala by providing low cost and locally assembled wheelchairs. HISTORY: IMI Guatemala is the pilot project of the U.S. non-profit Intelligent Mobility International, or “IMI. The idea started from a collaboration with students from the [...]
Profile: Hope Haven International Ministries
Posted by Laura on February 8, 2010
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Hope Haven International Ministries (HHIM) reaches beyond the borders of our nation by extending mercy to people with disabilities around the world. This is accomplished by working closely with relief and development organizations, mission groups and individuals in various countries. In the early 1990’s, Hope Haven, headquartered out of Rock Valley, Iowa (USA), had an [...]
Profile: Range of Motion Project
Posted by Marian on January 26, 2010
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The mission of the non-profit Range of Motion Project (ROMP) is to provide no-cost prosthetic limbs and orthotic devices in developing countries. ROMP recognizes the hardship of living in poverty without a prosthetic or orthotic device and understands how important these, often times simple devices, are to those who do not have access to them. [...]