Jaipur Foot Camp has been conducted every year since its inception twelve years ago, where the disabled people looking for their limb of life are provided with artificial limbs, calipers and crutches. These are the people who are suffering from polio, or amputees of accident and gangrene. The heart breaking scene where people come crawling on their hands and legs, children being carried by their parents, patients coming on wheel chairs with hope in their eyes, and anxiety writ large on their faces, expecting their life to turn into a new leaf, believing that a miracle will happen. Some of them are advised corrective surgeries. They go back walking with the aids or with the satisfaction that somebody has assured them a better life, with the corrective surgeries, wheel chairs and tricycles to enable them to lead a normal life.
So far 4565 Limbs, 10916 Calipers, 4400 Crutches have been provided.
Where there is a wheel there is way- Wheel chairs and tricycles are provided to those who cannot benefit from artificial aids or surgery. 311 tricycles and 750 wheel chairs have been provided so far.
The camp is scheduled from January 2nd- 9th 2010 in Bangalore- India. The beneficiaries are from the economically weaker section. |
