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An innovative project on the Mexican border helps people with disabilities
NOGALES, MEXICO — In a makeshift audiology center on the southern end of this border town, 6-year-old Jesus Lopez sits in a sound booth wearing headphones and a look of wonderment as a technician checks his hearing acuity.
How Border Communities Support One Another
A cross-border initiative on which I serve as a board member, called ARSOBO (ARizona SOnora BOrder) Projects for Inclusion, unites communities on both sides of the border to provide medical devices, made by individuals who use the same device, to enhance the potential of those with a disability.
Bringing Independence to Mexican Children Living With Disabilities
Cross-border nonprofit has built hundreds of specialty wheel chairs for children.
Arizona Sonora Border Projects for Inclusion
If you were looking for a sign today to give somebody a leg up in both the figurative and literal sense, look no further than this post on a truly one-of-a-kind establishment located in the border town of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs
U.S. ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson visited ARSOBO in December and called the organization "an important cross-border project.
Cross-Border Cooperation Results in Help for Mexican Amputees
A Civil War-era company and a Mexican nonprofit partner to provide prosthetics.
Cross-Border Nonprofit Designs Custom Wheelchairs for Children
It’s estimated that half of the disabled in the Mexican state of Sonora have serious mobility issues. The two most needed items are wheelchairs and prosthetics. The cross border nonprofit organization, ARSOBO, is filling a major void.