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A grassroot innovation
Some rights reserved,feel free to use this picture for non Commercial use to spread the awareness.
-Jaipur is the famous city of Rajasthan, INDIA. This place is known for it's royel history,
people and art and craft. For Tourists coming to INDIA , this city is considered a must in their travel plan.
Apart from tourism, this city is also famous for its grassroot innovation called JAIPUR FOOT. Not known among tourist lot ,which may never need this leg. This is a typical example of the innovation required to help the poor people not only in INDIA but all over the world. Particularly in war torn countries, where legs are most often causality . This is not only efficient and robust, but also very cheap. With philanthropic efforts it's cost has been reduced further.
The cost is only 28$ and till now more than 960,000 people got the life of dignity utilising fruit of this innovation.
link to organisation website-
www.jaipurfoot.org/07_donations_help.asp
World wide appriciation for Jaipur foot
www.landminesurvivors.org/news_article.php?id=577
www.time.com/time/reports/heroes/foot.html
www.jaipurfoot.org/01_org_awards.asp
Statistics on land mines in Africa:
www.ifrc.org/WHAT/health/archi/fact/fmines.htm
A grassroot innovation
Some rights reserved,feel free to use this picture for non Commercial use to spread the awareness.
-Jaipur is the famous city of Rajasthan, INDIA. This place is known for it's royel history,
people and art and craft. For Tourists coming to INDIA , this city is considered a must in their travel plan.
Apart from tourism, this city is also famous for its grassroot innovation called JAIPUR FOOT. Not known among tourist lot ,which may never need this leg. This is a typical example of the innovation required to help the poor people not only in INDIA but all over the world. Particularly in war torn countries, where legs are most often causality . This is not only efficient and robust, but also very cheap. With philanthropic efforts it's cost has been reduced further.
The cost is only 28$ and till now more than 960,000 people got the life of dignity utilising fruit of this innovation.
link to organisation website-
www.jaipurfoot.org/07_donations_help.asp
World wide appriciation for Jaipur foot
www.landminesurvivors.org/news_article.php?id=577
www.time.com/time/reports/heroes/foot.html
www.jaipurfoot.org/01_org_awards.asp
Statistics on land mines in Africa:
www.ifrc.org/WHAT/health/archi/fact/fmines.htm