Barr Foundation's Weekly Salute to Julio Montoya and Mr. & Mrs. Micheal Pulaski In Peru
Tony Barr
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Title:
Barr Foundation's Weekly Salute to Julio Montoya and Mr. & Mrs. Micheal Pulaski In Peru
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
12/11/2005
Text:
Each week the Barr Foundation sends a post and salute to honor a person (s)
or Hope Donor (s) whom has made a great difference in a life.
This week's story initiated from a individual humanitarian effort, by a
recent graduate from Penn State University with a PhD in Architectural
engineering, whom is doing volunteer work in Peru for 9 months.
It evovles to not only getting help for a 6 year old Peruvian girl, but
establishing a ongoing amputee assistance program for amputees in Peru, thru
an old friend and amputee Julio Montoya also in Peru.
Michael Pulaski and his wife met 6 year old Marilyn Carmen Rodriguez Camino
and her mother on a road side in Peru in October .
The little girl was hit by a bus in September 2005 and physicians had to
amputate her foot, just above the ankle. Her family could barely afford
crutches for her.
Mike contacted me for help October and I contacted Julio in Peru , also an
amputee, whom the Barr Foundation helped while he was in the USA last
January.
The Barr Foundation coordinated efforts during Julio's 1,500 mile journey,
to get a new socket , liners, hotel accommodations, etc.
Charles Dankmeyer ,Jr. CPO of Dankmeyer Inc. in Baltimore started Julio with
a new prosthesis for his 1,500 amputee awareness walk as well as other
prosthetists located along the coast.
I was fortunate to be able to help and meet him along the route.
Last January the O&P Edge magazine , covered the story of Julio's 1,500
mile walk for amputee awareness , down the eastern USA coast to Florida .
See < <URL Redacted>>
<URL Redacted>
After contacting him, Julio jumped in to assist without hesitation and
found a prosthetist at La Clinical Ortopedica Salvador in Lima to evaluate
and begin making her prosthesis.
Mr.& Mrs..Michael Pulaski graciously funded the cost of Marilyn's
prosthesis, thru our benefactor sponsorship program.
Since posts to the O&P listserve do not permit photo attachments, I can send
anyone who requests it, a picture of this little girl and her mother whom
were delighted to be helped.
Julio is anxious and ready to help other Peruvian amputees in his country
thur his organization de Asociación Camino al Futuro and Marilyn will
require subsequent fittings as she grows.
His web site of his organization is < <URL Redacted>>
http://www.caminoalfuturo.org/ where anyone can make donations or they can
be sent to the Barr
Foundation via our web site < http://www.oandp.com/barr > www.oandp.com/barr
Thank you Mr.& Mrs.Pulaski, Julio Montoya and The O&P Edge for covering
this story in a future issue.
Such Whole Again stories hopefully will help make your weekend and to
remind you, knowing that most of you whom became professionals and industry
O&P providers, got into this business to help people, and that you are
accomplishing allot and are appreciated by those that you help.
Thank you and have a great week.
Tony
Anthony T. Barr
Barr Foundation
<outbind://11/www.oandp.com/barr> www.oandp.com/barr
561-394-6514
or Hope Donor (s) whom has made a great difference in a life.
This week's story initiated from a individual humanitarian effort, by a
recent graduate from Penn State University with a PhD in Architectural
engineering, whom is doing volunteer work in Peru for 9 months.
It evovles to not only getting help for a 6 year old Peruvian girl, but
establishing a ongoing amputee assistance program for amputees in Peru, thru
an old friend and amputee Julio Montoya also in Peru.
Michael Pulaski and his wife met 6 year old Marilyn Carmen Rodriguez Camino
and her mother on a road side in Peru in October .
The little girl was hit by a bus in September 2005 and physicians had to
amputate her foot, just above the ankle. Her family could barely afford
crutches for her.
Mike contacted me for help October and I contacted Julio in Peru , also an
amputee, whom the Barr Foundation helped while he was in the USA last
January.
The Barr Foundation coordinated efforts during Julio's 1,500 mile journey,
to get a new socket , liners, hotel accommodations, etc.
Charles Dankmeyer ,Jr. CPO of Dankmeyer Inc. in Baltimore started Julio with
a new prosthesis for his 1,500 amputee awareness walk as well as other
prosthetists located along the coast.
I was fortunate to be able to help and meet him along the route.
Last January the O&P Edge magazine , covered the story of Julio's 1,500
mile walk for amputee awareness , down the eastern USA coast to Florida .
See < <URL Redacted>>
<URL Redacted>
After contacting him, Julio jumped in to assist without hesitation and
found a prosthetist at La Clinical Ortopedica Salvador in Lima to evaluate
and begin making her prosthesis.
Mr.& Mrs..Michael Pulaski graciously funded the cost of Marilyn's
prosthesis, thru our benefactor sponsorship program.
Since posts to the O&P listserve do not permit photo attachments, I can send
anyone who requests it, a picture of this little girl and her mother whom
were delighted to be helped.
Julio is anxious and ready to help other Peruvian amputees in his country
thur his organization de Asociación Camino al Futuro and Marilyn will
require subsequent fittings as she grows.
His web site of his organization is < <URL Redacted>>
http://www.caminoalfuturo.org/ where anyone can make donations or they can
be sent to the Barr
Foundation via our web site < http://www.oandp.com/barr > www.oandp.com/barr
Thank you Mr.& Mrs.Pulaski, Julio Montoya and The O&P Edge for covering
this story in a future issue.
Such Whole Again stories hopefully will help make your weekend and to
remind you, knowing that most of you whom became professionals and industry
O&P providers, got into this business to help people, and that you are
accomplishing allot and are appreciated by those that you help.
Thank you and have a great week.
Tony
Anthony T. Barr
Barr Foundation
<outbind://11/www.oandp.com/barr> www.oandp.com/barr
561-394-6514
Citation
Tony Barr, “Barr Foundation's Weekly Salute to Julio Montoya and Mr. & Mrs. Micheal Pulaski In Peru,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/225802.
