Wars, conflicts, and poverty increase higher rates of disabilities in the less developed world. Many are invisible citizens, forced to deal with discrimination, social exclusion, isolation, and poverty.
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According to the International Red Cross, landmine victims come from military actions (13%), playing (8%), fieldwork (20%), traveling (15%), demining (4%), non-military actions (38%), and others (2%).
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Only 5–15% of people located in Africa and Middle-East countries require assistive devices and technologies have access to them: production is low and often of limited quality, there are very few trained personnel and costs may be prohibitive.
(sources: WHO)
Our answer:
the objective of prosthetics is to restore, as close as possible, the functional capacity formerly held by a limb deficient person, in the west as in developing countries. High health technological devices can be accessible for all.
This means:
for companies, innovations to bring down prices always more and more without losing the best results, implementing corporate social responsibility projects to donate prosthesis to people who can’t afford it;
for states and all other entities promoting persons with disabilities rights, provide access to devices for all.
Projects
2010 – 2012
Project Haiti
1000 prostheses for children







2020
Marocco’s project
Prosthesis for a little girl
Associazione Culturale Chirone – Roadrunnerheart
Italia’s project
Prostheses to run for a young amputee
Roadrunnerheart
Senegal’s project
3 prostheses for young amputees
Roadrunnerheart
Kenya project
Prostheses to run for a young amputee
Roadrunnerheart
2019
OSO project
Realization of prostheses to run and introduction to the sporting practice of 7 young amputees
Vodafone Italy Foundation – Diagonale Running – Polisportiva Milanese – Polha Varese – Humantech group – Roadrunnerheart
2017
Senegal’s project
14 prosthesis
Longlife – Roadrunnerheart
2018
Portugal’s project
2 prosthesis for children
Padro Ortopedico- Roadrunnerheart
2016
Ecuador’s project
12 prosthesis – Fundacion Prothesis para la Vida
Roadrunnerheart
2015
Ukraine’s project
50 prosthesis for victims of war
Prosolidar – Roadrunnerheart
- 2009 Milan
- 2010-2014 Milan Marathon with African and Italian amputee athlete
- 2010 HAITI, Iª mission
- 2010 Milan
- 2011 June, Iraq
- 2011-2012 HAITI
- 2013 Foundation Molokai-Perù
- 2011 June, Syria
- 2012 Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry
- 2012 ICRC
- 2012 PROSOLIDAR
- 2012 CUAMM
- 2013 Syria refugees –Terres des Hommes
- 2014 Jordan for Syria Refugees
- 2014 Indonesia-Exceed
Above knee amputee prosthesis for phocomelia.
Partner: Croce Rossa – Disabili No Limits.
Allianz – directly Roadrunnerfoot
300 prosthesis for children, equipment for an assembly plant, raw materials.
Partner: Fondazione Francesca Rava
20 feet donated from Municipality of Milan, without funds
Partner Disabili No Limits
77 kit prosthesis for Emergency directly Roadrunnerfooty
II mission taking 700 prostheses to Haiti children
by Lions, A Leg to Stand On, World Rehabilitation Fund, Prosthetika directly Roadrunnerfoot
directly Roadrunnerfoot
12 feet for Iraq refugees
by Terre Des Hommes, Prosolidar, UNHCR.directly Roadrunnerfoot
Project in Benghazi-Libia for 100 amputees directly Roadrunnerfoot
Ethiopia materials lamination directly Roadrunnerfoot
Walking prosthesis and running prosthesis for 10 people directly Roadrunnerfoot
Walking prosthesis and running prosthesis for 4 African people directly Roadrunnerfoot
directly Roadrunnerfoot
Prosolidar; Rwanda-One Love Rwanda;
directly Roadrunnerfoot