Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs
A retired U.S. doc and a Mexican engineer co-founded a nonprofit group that is providing wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs at an affordable price.
Political tension between the United States and Mexico is making headlines with talk of disrupting longstanding trade deals and constructing a border wall.
And then there's the story of Antonio Garcia.
A mechanic from southern Sonora, he had been limping around on crutches for three years. His right leg was amputated below the knee after a motorcycle accident and buying a prosthetic leg was beyond his financial reach.
But he got the prosthesis just this January from a nonprofit that's and it's working to transform the lives of low-income Mexicans with disabilities. The organization, whose name is an acronym that stands for Arizona/Sonora border, provides affordable prosthetics, specialized wheelchairs and hearing aids.
