Barr Foundation provides Guyana ,South America ,Amputee Assistance Effort
Tony Barr
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Title:
Barr Foundation provides Guyana ,South America ,Amputee Assistance Effort
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
2/25/2000
Text:
The Barr Foundation is coordinating a amputee assistance trip to Guyana as
the result of a recent evaluation trip I and director Kim Doolan made there
at the invitation of President Bharrat Jagdeo.
We are requesting donations of new and used components and supplies that
could be utilized there.
Please contact me if you have an interest in providing tax deductible
donations of components and supplies to this effort and I will provide you
with the shipping address in Miami and our federal tax non profit
identification #.
Perhaps some of you attending the March 15-18 Academy Meeting in San Diego
could bring components and supplies.
We would like to take the opportunity of thanking Ohio Wildwood, Motion
Control, SanFransico Prosthetics and other Hope Donor Club Members whom are
recognized on our web site, for making these needed contributions.
We have been presented some questions from one of the candidates, a young
Guianese female, physically active, 26years old and congenital bi-lateral
amputee living in Guyana. Her name is Karen. She desires to become more
educated as to possible solutions to problems of lack of proper fitting and
mobility she has inured. Has do most of us, she requires some education to
properly inform her prosthetics with input as to viable options and
solutions.
I would appreciate subscribers of both lists to respond to me with their
thoughts and I will in turn relay them to Karen.
Thank You,
Tony Barr
President
The Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
Patients description:
I was born without fully developed legs.The left extremity ends at the ankle
and the right ends below the knee.
Stump sockets, what I have experienced in my years of wearing a/limbs is the
after a while my stump would
shrink and would be moving before the artificial leg as I walk, creating a
up and down movement which eventually bruse the stump.My current limbs weigh
a total of 11 pounds.
Things like this when they happen I need to be able to sit down with the
technician and find inovative solutions -Together- I am the wearer,
walking 3 metres with a new limb does not test its durability like
walking 1 mile would.
Karen
the result of a recent evaluation trip I and director Kim Doolan made there
at the invitation of President Bharrat Jagdeo.
We are requesting donations of new and used components and supplies that
could be utilized there.
Please contact me if you have an interest in providing tax deductible
donations of components and supplies to this effort and I will provide you
with the shipping address in Miami and our federal tax non profit
identification #.
Perhaps some of you attending the March 15-18 Academy Meeting in San Diego
could bring components and supplies.
We would like to take the opportunity of thanking Ohio Wildwood, Motion
Control, SanFransico Prosthetics and other Hope Donor Club Members whom are
recognized on our web site, for making these needed contributions.
We have been presented some questions from one of the candidates, a young
Guianese female, physically active, 26years old and congenital bi-lateral
amputee living in Guyana. Her name is Karen. She desires to become more
educated as to possible solutions to problems of lack of proper fitting and
mobility she has inured. Has do most of us, she requires some education to
properly inform her prosthetics with input as to viable options and
solutions.
I would appreciate subscribers of both lists to respond to me with their
thoughts and I will in turn relay them to Karen.
Thank You,
Tony Barr
President
The Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
Patients description:
I was born without fully developed legs.The left extremity ends at the ankle
and the right ends below the knee.
Stump sockets, what I have experienced in my years of wearing a/limbs is the
after a while my stump would
shrink and would be moving before the artificial leg as I walk, creating a
up and down movement which eventually bruse the stump.My current limbs weigh
a total of 11 pounds.
Things like this when they happen I need to be able to sit down with the
technician and find inovative solutions -Together- I am the wearer,
walking 3 metres with a new limb does not test its durability like
walking 1 mile would.
Karen
Citation
Tony Barr, “Barr Foundation provides Guyana ,South America ,Amputee Assistance Effort,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213612.
