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Repurposed Artificial Limbs Can Be Reused Overseas, Not US

13.03.2014
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Donated Prosthetic Limbs Get a Second Life
Repurposed Artificial Limbs Can Be Reused Overseas, Not US
By LIZ NEPORENT | March 12, 2014

Peter Rosenberger’s garage was piled high with body parts for six years. Stacks of legs littered the floor, arms were draped across desks and boxes of hands sat on a shelf.

“It was a freak show,” Rosenberger recalled. “A freak show with a purpose.”

Rosenberger, along with his wife, Gracie, has run Standing With Hope since 2002. The nonprofit organization gives prosthetic limbs a second life after a first owner has outgrown them or died.

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