Our Chair, Nuri, talked to Jen Owen at our Guest of Honor organization E-Nable the Future about their recent conference at Johns Hopkins (check out this blog by Jen about the experience), and here is what she had to say:
“The event at Hopkins was AMAZING – we had over 400 people there. We ended up making about 125 hands between the family workshops and the medical pro workshops! We sent at least 25 kids home with new hands that they had made themselves with their families. It was AMAZING.”
Check out their photo gallery!
This year, we have an opportunity (if you would like) to help directly in the same way – to gather funds to pay for printing of hands remotely, or to have Penguicon attendees print some themselves to donate. With E-Nable’s help, we could have an event during Penguicon where we assemble those same hands we have funded, in various sizes and colors. If possible, they would try to find some local families in need to come take one home!
What do you think? Each kit costs about $40 (including about $10 for future hand creation) – hands not used locally would go to other areas in need.
Would you consider contributing if you had the chance to see a prosthetic hand created with your dollars, and (perhaps) see it given out directly to a local family in need? Would you gather your Penguicon peeps to chip in together? Would you like to see Penguicon, funding permitting, contribute directly to help make this happen?
Please give us your thoughts, either on our official Forums or our Facebook group!