Saturday, December 5, 2009

Jaipur foot - A grassroot innovation

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-Jaipur is the famous city of Rajasthan, INDIA.
Apart from tourism, this city is also famous for its grassroot innovation called JAIPUR FOOT. This is an example of the innovation required to help the poor people not only in INDIA but all over the world. Particularly in war torn countries, where legs are most often causality . This is not only efficient and robust, but also very cheap. With philanthropic efforts it's cost has been reduced further.
The cost is only 28$ and till now more than 960,000 people got the life of dignity utilising fruit of this innovation.
link to organisation website-
www.jaipurfoot.org/07_donations_help.asp