Update November 28, 2021 (updates from Eric):

November 19:  

Delivered Lester's new arm today. Lots of smiles! He said how strange it seemed after 47 years to have an arm and hand there. Things will only get better with practice! Thank you Team UnLimbited for this great design.

 

 

 

 

November 21:  

 

Just finished Edwar's left arm. This is a big arm for a big guy! Going to let him try it out and if no changes are needed we'll start his right arm. With parts as big as this just printing time can take five days! That might see some change coming though.....

 

As always thank you Team UnLimbited!

 

 

 

 Update November 12, 2021 (updates from Eric):

  

 November 8, 2021:

We delivered Don Aurelio's lower arm today!  He told us that ever since we measured him he has been dreaming about the ways he will use it! He was a very nice man with lots of motivation. He took to using it right away. He lost his lower arm in a machete attack years ago. I pray it's a great blessing for him.

 

 

November 12, 2021: 

 

We were able to bless Kevin with a new lower arm today!  He has a rigid prostheses that is ten years old, nonfunctional and very heavy.  I just loved his reaction. He kept smiling, laughing and watching the fingers move. He is just so happy that the fingers move! Also that it's so lightweight! The dark blue color was what he wanted and he really liked it. We all really liked it so next supply order I guess a few reels will be that color.  We all had a very happy morning.

 

 

 

 

November 12, 2021:

Meet our next recipient, Edwar. Also our first outside Guatemala, he is from El Salvador. Edwar is a survivor with a very positive attitude. Men broke into his home to murder him and rob the house. He lost both lower arms and has many huge scars, they even tried to decapitate him. But here he is in our little spot on the Rio Dulce. Two lower arms for Edwar next in line!

 

 

 Update November 5, 2021 (update from Eric):

So we helped with another house today. This woman's house burned down. She is very poor. Her community pitched in and built her one but did not have money for the materials to make a floor. The dirt floor was very out of level and of course problematical in the rainy season, this is the tropics. Rita Rabre de Pinto found out about it and we partnered with her to get a floor built.

 

This woman and her daughter had brought in a lot of dirt to get things better leveled in anticipation of the crew doing concrete. There was still a bit of work getting it leveled right.She shares a kitchen and bathroom with a daughter two houses away.

 

Thank you to our supporters who make it possible to bring a helping hand to those who need it here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note from home office: to see more about this project, go to the IMS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/444644079017550?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL

 Update November 3, 2021 (update from Eric):

This is what it is all about! The reason we do this. Rigoberto told us he couldn't believe it, he had been waiting 15 years for a prosthetic. Today he got one! Smiles all around.