On April 27, more than 3,000 employees of DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, Colorado, assembled more than 1,400 prosthetic hands to help amputees and landmine survivors in 67 developing countries. They were also attempting to set a Guinness Book of World Records record for the most prosthetic hands assembled.
DaVita HealthCare Partners, which provides kidney care through DaVita, its dialysis division, gathered employees from around the world in Denver for its “village-wide meeting to celebrate, educate, and give back to the community.” The project was part of a philanthropic team-building workshop developed by Odyssey Teams, Chico, California. The specifics of the project were not revealed to the employees until the morning the assembly began.
“We’re really about helping human beings, and at the end of the day, this is another way of giving back,” Javier Rodriguez, president of DaVita, was quoted as saying in a Fox31 Denver news story.
