About us
We founded this charity up on the 19th of November 2023 in the United Kingdom to design, create and facilitate pathways to prosthetics and orthotics for children displaced by war. We chair a voluntary team of trustees that has decades of useful experience.
This includes a CPO from a leading global provider, an amputee and survivor of trauma inflicted blast injury and displacement from Gaza, a leading oxford graduate, cardiothoracic surgeon in one of the best London hospitals, and I personally have decades of experience in dealing with vulnerable & displaced victims. Together with our team of consultants we have over 50 years of experience in this field.
This expertise allows us to achieve our goals and prioritize our beneficiaries for your donations, ensuring the best in quality and care, and staying at the forefront of technological advancements in prosthetics for complex blast injury patients.
Since then, we have established ties with leading NGO’s and non-profits working in conflict zones, our consultants are experienced CPO’s and prosthetic & orthotic providers who work together to create cost effective, high-quality solutions suitable for complex blast injuries and congenital deformations, which is a cost of war due to the use of white phosphorus. We are also widening our scope to cover nerve and brain injuries, to ensure we do not leave victims behind.
We provide virtual assessments and consultancy, expertise and knowledge to other organisations to enhance or create a new prosthetic workflow.
Helping people regain their mobility, learn to walk again is what motivates us. As our trustee Sobhi Sobho, a CPO at Otto Bock, puts it; ‘it is Food for our soul.’
We are committed to follow up, long term prosthesis and orthotics and rehabilitation. We obtain feedback to ensure beneficiary satisfaction, and our team chooses the patients based on their medical needs, vulnerability, suitability, and accessibility.
What this means is, if they meet our criteria, we can provide prosthetics & orthotics for life for that person, with your donations. Our donations strictly go to established P&O centres or self-employed CPO’s to cover the costs.
Our focus right now is on the cohort that are in Gaza. The number of injured children & adults that required prosthetics and orthotics is unknown but could be in the tens of thousands.
We have started two social media campaigns to raise awareness of Gaza’s limb difference community, their condition, and their rehabilitation.
We believe that only someone with an amputation can relate to another person who has just suffered one, and that is why we started the #isawnothingbutbeauty campaign to send these messages to Gaza’s children.
Furthermore, we selected certain victims to highlight their story and to identify the new #gazaslimbdifference community to the rest of the world.
Search both hashtags and visit our Instagram page.
We are furthering our work in the field of research and development to enhance our knowledge of blast injuries, traumatic amputations, and other types, streamlining our workflow to create efficient processes based on the latest technology.
Ukraine has a cohort of amputees due to the landmines that have been placed there and we are aligned with the response that was created and the models that were trialled.
This means we work with the world’s leading institutions such as the Centre for Paediatric Blast Injury at Imperial College and the Centre for Pain Research after Traumatic Injury at the University of Bath to help develop medical infrastructure in prosthetics and orthotics in the areas in which we work.
Read our ‘ten beautiful principals,’ and donate now to help the Gazan limb difference community.
In the sixth century, an Arab woman, by the name of Zainab bint Ali was displaced by war. She witnessed the massacre of her entire family, and witnessed their amputation. Before being taken captive, she rescued all of the remaining children, and brought them to safety. She is considered a hero for her actions during the events that unfolded.
The bird stands for peace, freedom, and limitless potential. The nest and the eggs stand for a new foundation and new beginning for our beneficiaries with universal, unconditional love.
The perpetrators of the crime against Lady Zainab mocked her circumstances, in reply, she stated the famous line, ‘I saw nothing, but beauty,’ cementing her legacy today and remaining unconquered and dignified. We now want to use this as our motto to help blast injury victims displaced by war to see ‘nothing, but beauty’ too.