
Uganda: Prostheses for a New Life
In Uganda, disability often means poverty compounded by an almost total absence of medical care, and this film follows the German aid group ProUganda as it tries to close that gap. At its center in Kiyunga, near Kampala, the organization has built an orthopedic workshop and treatment rooms where staff fit patients with prostheses and train local specialists to keep doing the work after the Germans go home. Because many families cannot make the trip themselves, over uneven roads and long distances, the team loads minibuses with wheelchairs, some donated secondhand from Germany, some bought with donations, and drives out to rural villages to treat people where they live. The camera stays close to individual patients and technicians in the workshop and in the field, showing fittings, adjustments, and the practical mechanics of getting a child or adult walking again. It is a modest, on-the-ground portrait of what sustained foreign aid looks like when it is measured in wheelchairs delivered and limbs fitted rather than in headlines.