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Basra, Iraq

Prosthetics Project

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• There are over 50,000 amputees in Iraq -- 5,000 in the Basra area alone.

• Many are women and children who have been injured by land mines or as a result of war.

• Many of the health centers have been either looted or structurally damaged.

• The Basra Project was started in 2004 by Linda Smythe, a Rotarian from Montgomery Village Rotary Club in Maryland.

• Basra Project Strategic Objective: To provide training for Iraqi Ministry of Health physicians, prosthetists and technicians as well as medical supplies and equipment for the Basra Prosthetic Centre to facilitate manufacture of prosthetics for civilian Iraqi amputees.

• The Al Hussein Society in Amman, Jordan has become the training venue because Basra itself is unsafe and the clinic there is often unable to function.

• The Al Hussein Society runs one of the largest centers for the physically challenged in Jordan. It is a non-profit organization that seeks to provide educational, medical and rehabilitative services.

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Partnering Rotary Clubs

District #7620• Montgomery Village Rotary Club• Rotary Club of Washington, DC• Pikesville-Owings Mill Rotary

Club• Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotary

Club• Waldorf Rotary Club• Annapolis Rotary Club• Kensington-Wheaton Rotary

Club• Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club• College Park Rotary Club

• Rotary Club of Prince Frederick

• Rotary Club of Columbia

Other Rotary Clubs• Amman Cosmopolitan Rotary

Club, Amman Jordan• Rotary Club of Coronado,

California• Rotary Club of Douglas County,

Georgia• Ashburnham/Westminster

Rotary Club, Massachusetts• Rotary Club of Douglas County,

Douglassville, Georgia• Several Rotaract clubs


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Key Sponsors & Partners• Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Washington, DC• Basra, Iraq Prosthetic Centre• Physicians for Peace, Virginia• Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc., Maryland• Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland• Mosaic Foundation, Washington, DC• Embassy of Jordan, Washington, DC• King Hussein Medical Centre, Amman, Jordan• Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq• Embassy of Iraq, Washington, DC• Beaver Press, Washington, DC• Koz-Art, Maryland• U.S. Dept. of State, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, Political Military

Affairs, Washington, DC• U.S. Dept. of State, Office of Iraq Assistance, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,

Washington, DC• International Monetary Fund (IMF), Civic Programme, Washington, DC


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Funding and Resources

• Rotary Clubs sponsoring the Basra Project have raised more than $_____.

• The US Department of State has awarded $1.7 million in grants to this project.

• Physicians for Peace provides volunteers.• Hanger Orthotics provides advice on sources of used prosthetics.• While prosthetics cannot be reused in the US, often they are in

good condition and can be fitted to new users.• Primary staffing for the project comes from the Rotary Clubs of

Montgomery Village, Maryland, and Washington, DC.• Ted Hamady, a member of the Rotary Club of Washington, DC,

coordinates the national limb drive.


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Request to Rotary Club 25

• Contribute $3,000, a portion of which will be used to create an internship for a local senior in college or graduate student. The intern selected will coordinate a limb drive for the State of Minnesota.

• Support a request for an additional $3,000 in matching funding from District ___.

• Appoint international service committee representative(s) to work with the intern and national limb drive coordinator, Ted Hamady, at the Rotary Club of Washington, DC.


Documents

1 Basra, Iraq Prosthetics Project. 2 There are over 50,000 amputees in Iraq -- 5,000 in the Basra area alone. Many are women and children who have been