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The 10 years Sierra Leone Civil War ruins are witness to brutal deliberate amputations by rebel forces, giving rise to over 10,000 amputees relegated and restricted to amputee communities.
We provide medical treatment to the Amputee Communities.
IPSD has started the first of five stages to provide medical treatment, prosthetics, and wheeled-mobility devices to 500 amputees.
IPSD has measured 153 amputees who need prosthetic devices and/or wheeled-mobility devices.
We need your help to reach this goal.
Limited access to quality healthcare means amputation is still a medical necessity, IPSD remains a vital source of hope for the community.
In a country where disability relegates people to third rate citizens, with your help IPSD can continue to provide a powerful beacon of hope.
The perception of disabled people in Sierra Leone remains difficult; they are frequently seen as “other” or “lesser”, and in a country where 70% of young people face unemployment, finding work is even harder. “Life is very very difficult with me.... Even to put food on my table, it's sometimes difficult for me”
Sierra Leone's amputees are living with all the normal challenges of living in one of the world’s poorest countries compounded by the challenges of physical “disability”.
Prosthesis and other mobile devises are badly needed to provide the necessary mobility they need to look for and to find work to feed their families.
Please help IPSD fund prosthetic limbs and mobility assistance devises such as: crutches, wheeled-walkers, wheeled-chairs to provide those in the community a chance to provide for themselves and their community.