August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
23h 35m
English
At age fourteen, Sudha Chandran, an aspiring dancer, lost her right foot and part of her leg in a car accident. Devastated and convinced she would never walk again, let alone dance, she spent several months on crutches. Then one day in 1984, she read about Jaipur Foot.
A prosthetic foot in the United States costs on average $8,000. This cost is far beyond the means of the poor in developing countries,1 and even many of the poor in the United States.2 As many as four billion people, in India and the rest of the world, live in poverty on less than two dollars per day. When someone loses a limb, the inability to work is catastrophic, often for a whole family. The Jaipur Foot is tailored specifically to the ...
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