A prosthetic project started in the wake of a natural disaster a decade ago is getting a refresh as a small team from the UVic-based Victoria Hand Project prepares to return to Nepal.

The Victoria Hand Project harnesses 3D printing technology to create life-altering prosthetics to empower individuals worldwide, particularly where accessing prosthetics is challenging. By offering affordable and sustainable solutions, they restore independence, hope, and dignity to those who have lost mobility due to limb loss.

Started in 2014 as a research lab at the University of Victoria, the project’s first mission in Guatemala provided 3D-printed hands. Their prosthetics have developed over the years, both to expand in usability and from the hand to beyond the elbow, benefitting more than 400 amputees

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