Amparo06.17.19
Last week, Amparo, a German prosthetics startup, received the Special Award for Innovating for Disability at the Financial Times and IFC’s Transformational Business Awards 2019. Amparo was the only German company to receive an award at the ceremony. A group of nine judges selected the winners from a diverse selection of 270 businesses from around the world.
Amparo’s groundbreaking prosthetic technology, the Confidence Socket, enables medical professionals to visit and treat amputees anywhere with electricity and have them take their first steps in just one sitting. Additionally, the Confidence Socket can be completely reshaped to accommodate volume changes in the residual limb of an amputee; an eventuality that typically requires a new prosthesis.
Judge Darren Welch, Director of Policy UK at the DFID, presented the award, calling it: “A solution that has a huge potential to deliver real impact for people with disabilities, particularly in remote areas, with minimum waste and at an affordable cost.”
Amparo’s vision is to empower 90% of the world’s 20 million amputees, giving them access to affordable, high-quality prosthetics. Since launching in 2018, the company has worked with over 100 orthopedic clinics and professionals all over the world and changed the lives of hundreds of amputees. In July of this year, Amparo, together with the Global Disability Innovation Hub, is talking the next step in their mission to provide access to modern prosthetics to all, traveling to Kenya to train medical professionals and treat amputees in the most remote areas.
CEO and founder of Amparo, Lucas Paes de Melo said, “We are extremely proud of the achievements we have made but there is still a long way to go. 90% of the world’s amputees have no access to prosthetic care. Our trip to Kenya this year will be the first major step in changing that statistic for the better, allowing all those amazing people to live their lives to the fullest.
Amparo’s groundbreaking prosthetic technology, the Confidence Socket, enables medical professionals to visit and treat amputees anywhere with electricity and have them take their first steps in just one sitting. Additionally, the Confidence Socket can be completely reshaped to accommodate volume changes in the residual limb of an amputee; an eventuality that typically requires a new prosthesis.
Judge Darren Welch, Director of Policy UK at the DFID, presented the award, calling it: “A solution that has a huge potential to deliver real impact for people with disabilities, particularly in remote areas, with minimum waste and at an affordable cost.”
Amparo’s vision is to empower 90% of the world’s 20 million amputees, giving them access to affordable, high-quality prosthetics. Since launching in 2018, the company has worked with over 100 orthopedic clinics and professionals all over the world and changed the lives of hundreds of amputees. In July of this year, Amparo, together with the Global Disability Innovation Hub, is talking the next step in their mission to provide access to modern prosthetics to all, traveling to Kenya to train medical professionals and treat amputees in the most remote areas.
CEO and founder of Amparo, Lucas Paes de Melo said, “We are extremely proud of the achievements we have made but there is still a long way to go. 90% of the world’s amputees have no access to prosthetic care. Our trip to Kenya this year will be the first major step in changing that statistic for the better, allowing all those amazing people to live their lives to the fullest.