SIGN: Surgical Implant Generation Network
I have the great honor of serving as Honorary Project Chairman for the Kiwanis-SIGN project.
Kiwanis-SIGN is a PNW District-wide initiative to fund 100 or more Orthopedic Surgery Centers in major trauma hospitals in developing countries of the world.
Each Kiwanis-SIGN Surgery Center will restore to productive lives each year a minimum of 100 severely injured family wage-earners and principal care-givers, in perpetuity -- at absolutely no cost to the recipients.
At a cost to Kiwanians of $15,000 per center, the fourteen Surgery Centers so far established through the contributions of PNW clubs and Kiwanians, and the 86 more toward which we are working, will impact 10,000 persons per year. The beneficiaries are persons who otherwise face lifetimes as an invalids or amputees – or premature death.
Though 10,000 persons healed per year represents a small fraction of the annual 20 million severely traumatized persons throughout the developing countries of the world, we view our effort as a start that may ultimately be adopted by Kiwanians and other humanitarians everywhere.
Visit the SIGN web site at http://www.sign-post.org
Sylvester