By Elizabeth Neufeld | VP of Strategy
Brandon's favorite toy and character is Spiderman and what he wants to do most (and what his mom wants him to be able to do most) is crawl and walk.
ROMP believes that mobility is a concept that unites all human beings, regardless of geographic location or socioeconomic status, age or gender. To be mobile is key to all areas of a person’s life, especially in the healthy and happy start to a child’s life. Children living with amputation in resource-limited settings, such as Guatemala, must be mobile in order to attend school, make friends, play, and grow.
Disability, poverty, and vulnerability form a vicious cycle that affects people with amputations and their families. This cycle is amplified for those who become disabled in their youth or are born with a disability. People become immobile not by broken bodies, but by broken rehabilitation systems; not by missing limbs, but by missing prostheses.
This understanding drives ROMP’s multifaceted approach:
Equalizing the distribution of prosthetic care by providing the highest-quality services to the most vulnerable people with disabilities in the Western Hemisphere.
Decentralizing care delivery onto the community level, and diversifying services to address needs and desires in health, education, livelihood, social, and empowerment categories.
Innovating new technologies, care delivery models, and financing mechanisms to continually achieve excellence and category leadership in the global rehabilitation community.
Raising public and political awareness for the drivers and effects of immobility and disability through public messaging and the creation of policies.
Enabling people with disabilities, especially children, to maximize their human mobility and unlock their full human potential through advocacy and recreation.
With all this in mind, this past October, we were able to give the gift of mobility to Brandon, who is just two years old. Thank you for making that possible! Please consider ROMP in your end of year giving plans. We woudl be so grateful, as would our patients like, Brandon.
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