Amputees living in rural areas, often have no acces to prosthetic devices and care. We are looking for ways to provide prosthetics to people living in rural areas. These activities have been started under the name MoveAid. Since 2014, MoveAid and the Movendi Foundation joined the forces.
2014 – 2014
Floor Maten
Between July and November 2014 Floor was in Indonesia to evaluate Bob Giesbert’s project on the delta cast protheses; also known as the pontas prostheses. There was concluded that the quality of the delta cast material and the delta cast prostheses was sufficient. From the interviews with the P&O professional and the experiences with the mobile workshop so far, it appeared that the production process in which a positive mold is still used, needs to be improved.
2013 – 2013
Carrie Wismans
With a mobile workshop people in poor, rural areas can also be provided with proper rehabilitation care. Multiple organizations in developing countries are ambitious about creating a mobile workshop but still no effective examples exist (to our knowledge). Carrie Wismans went to Puspadi (Yakkum Bali) on Bali, Indonesia to find out what the challenges and opportunities are of a mobile workshop for Puspadi. One of her conclusions is to provide not only lower leg prostheses from this mobile workshop, but also ankle foot orthoses (AFO).
Click here for the project report.
2012 – 2013
Bob Giesberts and Eline Kolk
Eline Kolk and Bob Giesberts went to Indonesia in December 2012 to set up this pilot study. Together with Harapan Jaya (North-Sumatra), DARE Foundation (Jakarta) and Puspadi (Bali) they evaluated the concept and developed a testing plan. Twenty people will be using the developed prosthesis for one full year. During this peroid they will do several tests to test the quality and user satisfaction.
The DARE Foundation is producing the prostheses and executing the tests.
Click here for the project report.
2012 – 2012
Bob Giesberts
As his Master’s thesis, Bob Giesberts developed a lower leg prosthesis (Indonesian Kaki Palsu) that can be produced in a mobile workshop. He went to Harapan Jaya in North-Sumatra, Indonesia to further develop and evaluate his design together with Pontas. Together they made fifteen prototypes for three people to be tested for just a few days. The result of this project is a well defined design that can be used for further testing.
Click here for Bob his MSc thesis report and click here for a summary report.
Movie about Bob Giesberts his project
2011 – 2011
Arjen Bergsma
In a developing country like Indonesia it can be very difficult to get proper rehabilitation care like a lower leg prosthesis. Arjen Bergsma went to Indonesia to find out what makes it so difficult to get a lower leg prosthesis. Using the feedback information of multiple local organizations he concluded that availability is mostly hindered by the long distances patients have to travel and the time they have to be from home. He suggests to create a mobile workshop to bring the product to the people.