A new prosthetics and orthotics department, Guinebor 2 Hospital, Chad.

Ali is an 18-year-old farmer. His foot had to be amputated after a bad motorbike accident. He is no longer able to work, and doesn’t know what he’ll do to support himself.

Imagine being in a similar position – losing a limb in a tragic accident, and not having access to a service to provide you with the means to walk, to work, to feed your family.

This is the reality for so many in Chad.

Chad has a population of 19 million, but just six Prosthetics & Orthotics (P&O) clinicians in the entire country. An estimated 0.5% of the population in low income countries require P&O services, which means in Chad, there are six clinicians trying to meet the needs of 95,000 people .

The need is overwhelming

Guinebor 2 Hospital provides affordable quality health care in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Your gift today will help two British Prosthetist/Orthotists based at the hospital to purchase the equipment and tools needed to setup a Prosthetics and Orthotists (P&O) service at the hospital.

People like 14 year old Issa* (pictured), who tragically lost his leg after chronic recurrent skin infections.

Or the disabled children that come to the hospital’s Child Development Centre. They need braces to allow them to walk or to help stretch out contracted joints, but Guinebor 2 does not yet have the tools to manufacture them.

In a setting with such limited healthcare, those with physical disabilities are truly among the most disadvantaged in the world.

To help meet this essential need and reduce significant avoidable suffering, the Guinebor 2 P&O department will provide life-changing artificial limbs, and body braces and supports, to a Chadian population so lacking in this vital service.

Together we urgently need to raise £45,000

With your help the first phase will be to enable the purchase of the specialist equipment for Guinebor 2 to provide a P&O service as soon as possible. The specialist machinery, tools and a small first order of materials to equip the P&O workshop will cost £45,000. This will buy good quality equipment and transport it to Chad.

Premises for the new department and training of local Chadians in P&O will make up phases 2 and 3 of this project.

Will you give a gift today to help us start up Guinebor 2’s P&O department, and change the lives of disabled people in Chad for years to come?

£12 could buy hand tools for the workshop.

£41 could buy parts for a basic artificial limb.

£100 could go towards specialist equipment to make prosthetic limbs.

£600 could buy workshop equipment like a pillar drill

When you give, you won’t just be helping our passionate team of surgeons, physiotherapists and Prosthetist/Orthotists. You will be helping people like Ali and Issa.

* Name changed. All photographs used with permission.