Date: 10th July, 2004
Time: 5:30 pm
Venue:
Duarte Performing Arts
Center
1401 Highland Ave.
Duarte, CA 91010
USA
Tickets: $20 (Children under 12 free)
All Funds collected from
ticket sales will be given to charity.
Charitable Organization:
Friend-in-Need Society – (Jaipur Foot Program) The Friend-in-Need
Society being the first charitable organization to have been
launched in Ceylon by Governor Sir Edward Barnes in 1831, seized the
opportunity of providing this low cost marvel called the Jaipur Foot
Limb to the thousands of disabled poor who had been denied mobility
thus far.
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Goal of the program: To have a
concert with voluntary performing artiste of United States of
America (Band-Aid Sri Lanka) and collect funds from ticket sales to
above mention charity. All the expenses of the show will be
compensated by raising funds from sponsors, donations and souvenir.
Background of Jaipur Foot Program: In 1985,
inspired by the works of the Jaipur foot pioneer, Dr. P. K. Sethi, Mrs.
Swarna Ferdinand-Jayasinghe, Honorary Secretary of the Colombo
Friend-in-Need Society, introduced the Jaipur Foot Program to Sri Lanka.
Three trainees were sent to Jaipur, India, for several months to train
under the supervision of Rob Singer, an American prosthetist who had
traveled to India to learn the Jaipur limb system. The trainees and Mr.
Singer returned to Colombo to set up Sri Lanka’s first Jaipur limb
workshop. In its first year, the workshop produced approximately 475 AK
and BK prostheses—two or three times the previous entire national
output. From 1985 to 1991, activities at the workshop increased and FINS
steadily expanded its production of devices. During that period, FINS
also began providing income-generating grants and hosted sporting
activities for prosthetic limb users.
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