One of The Charities FAACNJ supports:
Physician For Peace
Walking Free
For the first 21 years of her life, Lhea Medrano was full of insecurity and dependent on other people. She could not even go to the mall alone for fear that she would fall down and embarrass herself in public. Born with a severed right leg, Lhea grew up walking with the use of a crutch and felt incomplete – physically, emotionally and mentally. But in 2005, Lhea’s life drastically changed. She began walking like any normal individual, as she became the recipient of an artificial leg from the Physicians for Peace-Philippines amputee care doctors. Physicians for Peace-Philippines Walking Free program has grown since then. Starting with direct individual care, the Walking Free program today addresses orthotic and prosthetic resources for those who cannot afford it, opening a full O&P clinic at Philippines General Hospital to get their prosthesis and rehabilitation, and an internationally recognized O&P school. The team continues to provide the indigent population better access to prosthesis use by coordinating year-round medical missions where amputee screening and prosthesis services are organized and conducted on-site. |
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