Barr, HealthWrights Team Up, Aid Mexican Amputees

The Barr Foundation, Boca Raton, Florida, has begun working with HealthWrights, Palo Alto, California, to assist amputees in Mexico. HealthWrights is a nonprofit organization dedicated to grassroots health and empowerment initiatives and is directed by David Werner, author of the internationally distributed book, Where There Is No Doctor.

Twenty amputees were evaluated in early February at HealthWrights' PROJIMO Rehabilitation Program by Barr Foundation President Anthony "Tony" Barr; Wayne Koniuk, CP, San Francisco Prosthetics Services, San Francisco, California, and a Barr Foundation board member; and Jon Batzdorff, CPO, Sierra Orthopedic Laboratory, Santa Rosa, California. Coordinating the trip were Werner and Glenn Pfeffer, MD, president of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS).

Project PROJIMO (an acronym for "Programa de Rehabilitación Organizado por Jóvenes Incapacitados de México Occidental" or "Rehabilitation Program Organized by Disabled Youth of Western Mexico") is located in the small village of Coyotitan, about 50 miles northeast of Mazatlán. The program is a community-based rehabilitation and education project run by and for disabled persons. Disabled rehab workers provide physical and occupational therapy, teach families how to help their disabled children, teach self-help skills, and make a wide variety of adaptive equipment.

"I saw disabled people in wheelchairs and on gurneys making wheelchairs, spina bifida patients helping with bracing, and others helping in other ways," said Barr. "Of all the countries I have visited and all the third-world amputees that the Barr Foundation has helped, this was the most inspiring effort I have witnessed of people helping their own."

"The Barr Foundation is providing assistance to 20 amputees in a pilot program with the support of the PROJIMO's local prosthetic technician. We are in need of pylon tubing , four-bar knee units, SACH feet, and knee adapters." SACH feet have been donated by Kingsley Manufacturing Co., Costa Mesa, California, and stump socks by Royal Knit, Lee's Summit, Missouri, and other donors, Barr said.

To donate componentry or for more information, contact Anthony T. Barr, Barr Foundation, 561.394.6514 or visit www.oandp.com/barr

For more information about HealthWrights, visit www.healthwrights.org

For information about PROJIMO in Spanish, visit http://bsd.cln.megared.net.mx/~grupoprojimo

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