Victoria Hand Project
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide upper-limb prosthetics to amputees in need, with a focus in developing countries where amputees have limited or no access to prosthetic care. With our prosthesis, amputees can regain the ability to do home or work-related tasks, and improve their quality of life.
About This Cause
For upper limb amputees, a functioning prosthetic device can be an incredible tool for regaining independence, pursuing occupational goals, and minimizing unwanted attention in public. Unfortunately, many developing countries and low-income communities lack the proper resources to help disabled citizens. Prosthetic care is expensive, and must be provided by trained medical professionals, known as prosthetists, who are often very in-demand and overwhelmed with requests. Missing limbs can lead to low self-esteem, social exclusion from the community, and can be a burden to the supporting family. Everyday tasks such as eating, cooking, dressing, and washing become challenging to complete. Victoria Hand Project, or VHP for short, has a mission to provide low-cost prosthetic arms to amputees in developing countries and low-income communities who do not have access to suitable prosthetic care. VHP achieves this in a few unique ways - we partner with local medical professionals, make use of 3D printing to create customized devices, and continually develop the hand technology using feedback from users. VHP currently operates in 10 countries: Cambodia, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda, and under-served regions of Canada and the United States. In many of these areas, prosthetic devices can be difficult for people to access due to the high costs associated, and a lack of infrastructure to manufacture these devices. VHP partners with local prosthetists, healthcare practitioners, and technical experts in these under-served regions, and provides the equipment and training in cutting-edge technologies, including 3D-printing and 3D-scanning. Creating these partnerships helps generate high-tech jobs in some of the world’s poorest areas, to manufacture and deliver the Victoria Hand as an affordable option in the communities that need them most. By using 3D-printing, VHP can manufacture highly-functional, custom prosthetic devices at a fraction of the cost and in less time when compared to traditional devices. 3D printing allows each prosthetic arm to be custom-made to each user’s unique needs. It also helps increase the clinics capacity, allowing the clinicians to help more people, laying the groundwork for sustainable, on-going care. The Victoria Hand is a highly functional, body-powered prosthetic arm. VHP offers many customization options depending on what the user wants and needs. Users may find the Victoria hand useful for completing household tasks, personal hygiene, light work activities, and much more. Access to a usable prosthetic arm can be life-changing. VHP continually updates designs to make the hand even more useful and usable, expanding the possibilities of ways amputees can meaningfully use the prosthesis. Donations to the Victoria Hand Project allow us to provide prosthetic hands to amputees who need them most, through our incredible international clinical partners. With your generous contribution, no matter how great or small, we are able to truly make a difference. We are grateful for any help you can provide, and guarantee it will change lives for the better.