e-NABLE

It is hard to believe that another year has passed for our ever growing and evolving e-NABLE community and today we celebrate the 2 year mark of somehow finding a way to bring people from all walks of life, different religions, opposing political views, cultures, races, occupations, education levels and so much more - to work together to make a difference in the lives of others...simply by using the talents and tools that we have available to us on a daily basis. While our community and many others have provided an estimated 1500 free hands to those in need around the world - what we have accomplished over the past year, goes well beyond simply creating helper tools for children born with no fingers, winning tech awards, being gifted a grant for research and development and making the news more times than we can keep track of...what we have really accomplished - is something even more beautiful and wonderful than all of that put together. We have created a world wide movement of people who are putting aside their differences and reaching out across oceans, past borders and barriers - to create something positive in the world and for each other. We have a growing global humanitarian army of selfless people who are scraping together their extra change to purchase materials to make a hand for a child they will never meet. We have groups of people who are risking their lives to get 3D printed hands to victims of war. We have elementary, middle and high school students who are giving up their recess and lunch hours to build hands for their fellow students and we have universities who are forming teams and coming together to change lives. We have hundreds of scouts who are spending their free time and giving up their Saturday afternoons to assemble hands for children in countries where these simple 3D printed devices are the only option they will ever have for a prosthetic device. When e-NABLE was founded in 2013, we started with about 70 volunteers and just a few hands had been created and delivered. A year later in June of 2014, the e-NABLE Google+ community had grown to over 1000 members and we had created over 200 hands. Today, we have over 5500 members in our growing community and have donated hands to people in over 40 countries.