Artificial limbs in iron moulds

The Jaipur foot looks like a real foot, has the ability to bend in all directions enough to allow a person to squat and walk on uneven terrain, and is a very low-cost alternative costing less than $5 USD to make, and can be fabricated in less than 3 hours.
The foot is made out of wood and sponge rubber and then heat-molded using iron molds. The outer rubber gives the foot its realistic appearance and natural color as well as
waterproofing the wooden block inside.

The manufacturing process of the foot. Each craftsperson makes 5 to 6 feet per day. They work a 6 day week and the majority of them are amputees or affected by polio themselves. Various rubber and wooden pieces are used to construct the foot before it is put into a die that gives it the realistic appearance.

Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is the world's largest organisation serving the disabled. This NGO provides all its assistance, including artificial limbs, calipers and other aids and appliances totally free of charge.

BMVSS was registered as a society under the Rajasthan Societies Registration Act on March 29, 1975 (vide registration number 261/1974-75). It has its headquarters at Jaipur (India). It is a pan-Indian organisation having 22 branches, spanning Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir) to Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Ahmedabad (Gujarat) to Guwahati (Assam). Metropolitan cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Varanasi, Patna, etc also have limb fitment centres of BMVSS. Details can be found under the Locations section.

Since inception, BMVSS has rehabilitated more than 1.3 million amputees and polio patients by fitting / providing artificial limbs (Jaipur Foot variations), calipers, and other aids and appliances, mostly in India and also in 26 countries across the world.

Apart from providing the widest possible range of services for the disabled, BMVSS is also focused on research and development, and tries to fuse service with science.

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