The Hand Project
Providing free functional prosthetic hands and arms to people in developing countries
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The Hand Project is all about providing people who have lost one or both hands with more dignity and possibilities in their lives.
The Hand Project provides mechanical prosthetic hands to people in developing countries completely free of charge. In various forms, The Hand Project itself has been going for 5 years, and our involvement in this cause for well over 12 years.
The hands are 100% mechanical and are operated by the user using their remaining hand or, in the case of bi-lateral amputees, the residual limb or any other suitable object.
With it, the recipient can write, eat, ride a motorbike, and many many things that we take for granted. It makes the quality of their lives much better and provides more dignity.
In the countries we distribute our hands, most amputees can simply not afford a prosthetic hand.
The hand prostheses provided through this project only come into existence via corporate team building events. The events are our ‘assembly line’ and also the project’s funding model.
The project is run from Germany, which is also where the parts for hands are manufactured. In each of the countries where we distribute hands, we work with either charities or NGOs who have the local knowledge and contacts to make the project successful.
To make the project sustainable, we work with local orthopaedic technicians and train them to a level where they can fit hand and arms alone. This way, we are able to send them shipments without the need for lots of costly travel.
Beneficiaries and distribution
Untapped land mines, war, and diseases such as diabetes and polio have left many people with amputated limbs. Of the disabled population, 80% reside in resource-constrained countries. More specifically, 2.4 million of the 3 million upper-limb amputees worldwide live in developing countries. According to WHO, less than 5% of the population in the developing world has access to rehabilitation services.
The WHO has developed a set of criteria known as ASSURED: Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment-free, and Deliverable to end-users to ensure that biomedical devices are applicable to developing countries.
Our solutions fit this ASSURED criteria.
Our upper limbs and hands reach beneficiaries in two ways:
- First and foremost though organised Fitting Camps. These are organised by local NGOs and / or charities who mobilise beneficiaries to a central location where our team does the fitting as well as training local orthopaedic technicians.
- Secondly, we also have a few small centres in some countries which can take walk-ins.
Case Studies and Videos
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