A Half-Day of Solidarity Supporting Handicap International’s Liimba Project
On July 1, 2025, 11 volunteer employees from Sidas World took part in a half-day of volunteering at Handicap International’s Liimba workshop in Vénissieux.
Supervised by the organization’s team, they helped dismantle collected prosthetic limbs and carefully clean reusable components, all in a friendly and collaborative atmosphere.
The Liimba Project: Giving Prosthetics a Second Life
Launched by Handicap International in 2006, the Liimba project aims to collect, dismantle, clean, and refurbish used tibial and femoral prostheses, with the goal of redistributing the usable components to rehabilitation centers in low-resource countries.
In Europe, prostheses are typically replaced every three to five years, even though many components remain functional far beyond that. Liimba addresses two key issues:
• the absence of a reuse channel in Europe,
• the limited access to prosthetic limbs in many countries due to their cost.
Thanks to the Vénissieux workshop, components are sorted, cleaned, categorized, and shipped based on requests from partner orthoprosthetists. In 2024, shipments were made to Uganda, Rwanda, Togo, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Yemen. In the latter, refurbished parts are used to train the country’s first national cohort of orthoprosthetists.
A long-standing partner of Handicap International, Sidas World is proud to support the Liimba project, which combines solidarity, sustainability, and social innovation.
Many thanks to all participants for their dedication and energy.
👉 Learn more about the project:
https://www.handicap-international.fr/fr/liimba
