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Dave Evans: A Healing Force in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Dave Evans sends greetings from the Democratic Republic of Congo! A long time Friend of Polus Center, and Chief Prosthetics Consultant, Dave has traveled all over the world bringing mobility devices, and rehabilitation services to victims of conflict across the globe.

webmaster February 5, 2022 - 15:32 PM

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Healing is Happening

Landmine survivor Isaac Wetewabo shares his hopes as he struggles to provide for his family. The Coffeelands trust, a fund created in 2005, provides support for coffee farmers, like Isaac, and their families impacted by landmines in conflict and post-conflict regions of the world through rehabilitation, training, coffee farm improvements, housing, and small business development.

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Lake Kivu Coffee Alliance

A Delegation from the Polus Center arrived on the island of Idjwi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to meet with coffee cooperatives and assess how injured coffee producers, who have lost their ability to farm due to injuries sustained by landmines/explosive remnants of war, might return to work.

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Field Report DRC

West Virginian, Dave Evans is renowned for his expertise in making prosthetic limbs, and for helping amputees in war-torn countries throughout the world. Himself an amputee as a result of wounds received in Vietnam, Dave has worked with the Polus Center since 1997 establishing prosthetic rehabilitation programs and training technicians. In this months field report, Dave writes about his latest trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

webmaster February 4, 2022 - 21:19 PM

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Landmine Survivor Speaks Out

September 15th, 2002 was Adelmo Uni Jimenez’s 27th birthday. Walking along a bridle path In the Yanacona Indigenous community of Cauca, Colombia, Adelmo was rounding up his animals and thinking about a special birthday lunch, when a blast knocked him down to the ground and he lost consciousness. Although he could not immediately focus when he woke up, he felt he was alive. Searing pain in his right leg drew his attention, and he saw that it was torn open.

webmaster February 4, 2022 - 21:12 PM

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