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The Walk and Work Foundation, Inc., is duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Philippines with registration number CN200925194 issued on March 5, 2009. The location of the center is within the district of Brgy. Hibao-an Norte, Mandurriao, Iloilo City, Philippines.
The center focuses on the production of prosthetics and orthotics making them affordable to poor persons with disabilities. The center also deploys persons with disabilities as its workers, thereby providing them with livelihood projects and making them responsible members of society despite their handicaps. Walk and Work Foundation, Inc. was officially started in 2009 with the aim of reaching out to patients and clients who sustained various disabilities due to sickness, congenital deformities, and accidents.
It had a sitting Board lead by Dr. Jessie B. Villareal to manage and its staff. The Foundation is closely supported by Liliane Foundation and NORFIL Foundation Philippines through its various projects.
The project started in Iloilo City in 2009. Approximately there are 8,000 PWD’s in the whole Region VI alone and most of them are classified as orthopedically disabled like a person with amputations in various forms. Victims of Cerebro-Vascular accidents (strokes) and congenital cases or children born with birth defects. Most of these PWD’s are deprived of any help and access to medical care. The planned strategy is to provide access to orthopedic assistive devices like prostheses, orthosis, and wheelchairs in order for PWD’s to be able to walk again and find gainful employment. This will be an integrated approach with cooperation between the different government agencies like PCSO, DSWD, and PHIC.
