GIVING A HAND (Dando una Mano)

Custom low-cost prosthetics with digital manufacturing technology

Problem
There is 2.4 million people with upper limb amputation condition in developing
countries. 12,600 of them in Perú with an increasing rate of 30 new cases per
year.

73% rate of national business informality, with 138 hand related accidents due to
working conditions in the capital only,

There is a limited offer of prosthesis across the country: Hook type prosthesis
costs are around 1,800 dollars and robotic hands: 76,000 dollars.

For a low-income person who have lost his/her hand due to work related
accidents, results nearly impossible to access a prosthesis.

Solution
We intend to develop highly functional custom prosthesis for hand and fingers
manufactured in 3D printing that allow the labor re-insertion of the amputated
person.

Our beneficiares are people of low economic income who

have partial hand amputation due to congenital or
accidental reasons (occupational accidents).

Our mission to develop custom low cost prosthetics with

digital manufacturing technology. Our vision is to meet the
need and improved access to upper limb prostheses in Latin
America.
 We offer a complete service:

Conceptual validation
PRE pre-prosthetic therapy
SERVICE User analysis

PRODUCT

3D
3D Modeling 3D Printing
Scanning

POST Functional validation

post-prosthetic therapy
SERVICE Adjustments & Repairs

We build stories
Identifying Users: The first steps require the identification of our first users in
order to develop with them our entire program.

Support & Donations: Our prosthesis has a cost of 900 dollars per user . we
seek to work with both public and private institutions to reduce costs of
production, distribution and sale.

Sharing the Storie: After the user has received his/her prosthesis, we develop
our media strategy in order to tell the Storie in radio, national TV and social
networks in order to identify new partners and users.

Once the Storie is shared, the cycle starts again!

Goals & Metrics

Revenue Stream

Winners of the "Bold Ideas" grant by the National

Council of Science, Technology and Technological
Innovation of Peru (CONCYTEC). 30,300 USD.

We are a social initiative created by the Pontifical

Catholic University of Peru (University number 1 of the
country) .The university provide us Facilities and
equipment.

Awards
“Giving a hand” is one of the 250 ventures chosen among
4,000 applications from entrepreneurs in 36 countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean that will
participate in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
as one of the most talented and promising ventures. The program,
sponsored by the Department of State, will bring 250 business and social
entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States in
October 2017, to collaborate with their counterparts in businesses and civil
society organizations in 24 cities across the United States.
Team

Dante Elias Ph.D

Mechanical Engineer

Renato Mio
CTO - Mechatronics Engineer

Marlene Bustamente
Industrial Designer

Fernando Romero
CEO - Mechatronics Engineer

Jennifer Wong
Industrial Designer - Coordinator in SALA VEO 3D

Julio Vela
Industrial Engineer
Mentor

Jose Fernandez Concha M.I.B

CFO - Economist