Contents Mission Vision Values Founding of the Foundation Operation of the Foundation

2. Contents Mission Vision Values Founding of the Foundation Operation of the Foundation What Characterizes Us

3. Mission • To satisfy the needs of our patients, offering them a personalized, competitive and innovative service with a guarantee of quality. • To promote and organize educational assistance activities for people with orthopedic disabilities, with the goal of minimizing their limitations and optimizing their physical and psychological development, turning them into productive citizens. • To aid patients of limited economic resources who need orthopedic apparatuses and prosthetics which will be made at cost by the laboratory of INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA: • Prosthetics for above and below the knee; • Spinal orthotics for patients with scoliosis; and • Inferior extremity orthotics for patients with difficulty walking due to fractures, congenital defects or cerebal vascular accidents. • To promote teamwork and initiative and development of our staff through training and implementation of new technology. • To promote the foundation so as to achieve involve the public and private sectors in supporting the reintegration of disabled program in our society. • To promote and organize educational support activities for people with orthopedic disabilities in order to minimize their limitations and optimize their physical and psychological development, making them productive citizens.

4. Vision • To have national and international scope. • To design strategies so that beneficiaries may be linked to different programs and projects which are offered by private enterprise through their social responsibility initiatives as well as by International Organizations. • To prepare educational programs for the training of resident doctors in different hospitals on the following topics: • Unification and appropriate use criteria for the prescription of orthotics and prosthetics; • Presentation of alternatives for the outfitting of patients with orthotics that avoid amputations; • Updating in the use and prescription of the latest techniques in prosthetics and orthotics; • Presentation of case studies demonstrating excellent results in the use of prosthetics and orthotics; and • Techniques in the outfitting of patients with orthotics due to fractures of the spinal column and inferior and superior extremities.

5. Values • Respect for the individual • Unity and equity • Honesty and responsibility • Excellence in service • Job satisfaction • Commitment

6. How the Foundation Began The INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA laboratory monthly receives an average of 200 patients, most referred by public hospitals and NGO´s. 80% of these patients, who daily come to the lab to be equipped with orthosis or prosthetics are forced to postpone or simply forget to their rehabilitative treatmentdue to financial constraints. Thus arose the INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA SIN LIMITES FOUNDATION, which in alliance with the INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA laboratory serves and evaluates these cases of low income in order to cover all or part of the cost of the prosthesis according to the economic possibilities of the patient. According to the results of the Family and Population Census of 2010, out of the 9'300, 000 inhabitants of the Dominican Republic, about 274,000 have difficulty walking or climbing stairs. People in wheelchairs and crutches live an adventure while moving around the cities of the Dominican Republic where, perhaps out of ignorance, but in violation of the law, the sidewalks are clogged with poorly placed light poles, trees, cars, motorcycles, or just stolen by the owners of the buildings, although the Law 241 on Transit of Vehicles clearly states that "the sidewalks are for pedestrian use only." Additionally, the country's conditions are minimal and quite precarious for those with disabilities who seek to move in the streets and avenues in the absence of ramps, sidewalks and road safety education for pedestrians and drivers. Unfortunately, the vast majority of disabled people in Dominican Republic are poor people who have been excluded by the society because they are considered "sick". This condition leaves them in a plane of limited access to be self-sufficient and to be taken into account, which makes them an invisible population and thus suffer job discrimination. To an amputee getting a prosthesis represents again be considered as useful human being, able to move with complete peace like any other pedestrian and to be self-recovering their self-esteem and dignity.

7. How the Foundation Began Since 2007, the laboratory team of INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA, with the help of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons), has provided humanitarian assistance to more than one hundred patients. INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA similarly has received assistance from international organizations like Doctors for Peace, AMDA, JICA, schools and friends who, upon learning of the the laboratory’s willingness to provide social assistance, have donated materials and components to patients of limited economic means. It is important to note that the International Committee of the Red Cross has supported INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA with the donation of equipment and matierals, as well as with the training of staff members at the Universidad Don Bosco in El Salvador. After the earthquake in Haiti in January of 2010, INNOVACION ORTHOPEDICA was contacted by a group of women, among whom was Mrs. Lizzy Raisbeck, who were aiding a group of young earthquake survivors. These patients were chosen to receive social assistance from INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA, which provided them with inferior and superior extremity orthotics. Since then, Mrs. Raisbeck has collaborated with this program, obtaining the resources to cover the costs of prosthetics and orthotic devices for patients with limited economic means who visit the laboratory daily. She was the motor behind the foundation of INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA SIN LIMITES.

8. How Our Foundation Operates • Our patients generally are referred by: • CURE International • Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital • Darío Contreras Hospital • Various hospitals in the country • NGOs related to our work • Patients without resources who appeal directly to our laboratory • Patients are evaluated by the techical team, while the social welfare department completes a questionnaire to determine the social-economic level of the patient. • Evaluations are approved by our administrative personnel who determine the type of economic aid that the patient will receive, whether partial or full.

9. Our Board of Directors

10. Our Professional Team The laboratory of INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA currently has a team of 9 qualified technicians who were trained to offer efficient service to their patients. This team is led by Carlos Freddy who is the general workshop supervisor, and by Daniel who supervises the educational training of the technicians. Carlos Freddy Gutiérrez • Born in Colombia, 1963 • Coordinator of Orthopedic Laboratories, Valley University Hospital, Cali, Colombia, 1981-1987 • Technologist in Prosthetics and Orthotics at the Techonological Institute of Santo Domingo, 1988 • Professor in the School of Professional Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics for Latin America, Dominican Association of Rehabilitation (ADR), 1990-1991 • Director of the School of Professional Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics for Latin America (ADR), 1992-1993 • Consultant and Director of Orthopedics Laboratories (ADR), 1994- 1998 • Founding Member of the Laboratory Innovación Ortopédica, Dominican Republic , 1998 to the present, and Vice-President of the Foundation Daniel López • Born in Venezuela, 1969 • Technologist in Prosthetics and Orthotics at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo, 1990 • Laboratory Supervisor of Prosthetics/Orthotics, Children’s Orthopedics Hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, 1987-1992 • Auxiliary Technician in Prosthetics/Orthotics, International Rehabilitation Management and Technology, New York, 1993-1994 • Head of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Images Laboratory, Long Island, New York, 1995-1998 • Founding Member of the Laboratory Innovación Ortopédica, Dominican Republic, 1998 to the present ,and Member of the Foundation

11. What Characterizes Us According to the results of the Family and Population Census of 2010: Total of population of the Dominican Republic: 9´300,000 people Disabled population: 12.3% (1,161,000 personas) Population with motor Disabilities: 24% (278,000 personas) To these people with orthopedic disabilities, 70% of the assistance is provided by two large institutions that offer services similar to those of INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA SIN LIMITES. Due to the high volume of patients, however, t is not possible to personalize the service in each case. One of the policies of the Laboratory INNOVACION ORTOPEDICA, as well as of the Foundation, is to provide personalized service, from the patient’s first entrance into the laboratory to the completion of his/her treatment when he/she leaves walking with his/her prosthetic or orthotic.