When natural or man-made disasters ravage a foreign country—when people are injured and suffering as the result of a cataclysm or abject poverty—O&P professionals are often moved to offer skilled humanitarian help.
Their hearts are in the right places; but it’s their footprints that we should consider. No one wants to leave the people of a struggling country worse off than before they arrived, yet it can happen. We asked O&P clinicians experienced in providing humanitarian aid to underserved countries to share their insights and advice on how to deliver O&P aid most appropriately, effectively, and beneficially.
