Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) restores mobility and independence worldwide to amputees and other disadvantaged persons suffering from orthopedic disabilities. Seattle-based orthopedic surgeon Ernest M. Burgess, M.D. (1911-2000) founded POF in 1989 to help alleviate the suffering of amputees worldwide. In 2005, POF expanded its mission to also include children and adults who suffer from debilitating orthopedic disabilities, such as clubfoot, cerebral palsy and polio. POF emphasizes community-based rehabilitation and the building of local capacity in developing countries through training of local personnel, in-county manufacturing of assistive devices and their components, and technology transfer. POF has helped more than 15,000 men, women and children around the world to walk again, whose limbs have been taken by war, accidents, disease, and natural disasters.