When little David came to our 2012 Children of The Americas team, he wasn't a typical happy preschooler. David had been born without adequate limbs, which in Guatemala, meant he was destined to live a life of immobility. There are very few resources in this Central American country for children with such extreme disabilities.
David's mother had heard of COTA, and she brought him to Zacapa to seek assistance from our volunteer orthotics and prosthetics team members. Shelley Ryan (Lexington, KY), Tim Macke (Denver, CO) and Jason Griffin (Lakewood, CO) worked diligently to fit and fabricate prosthetic legs for David. With the help of ROMP's lab in Zacapa, two new little prosthetic legs were donated to David.
This video shows David and Tim testing David's new legs in the Guatemalan hospital courtyard.
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