Danish organization Levitate hosted a prosthetics sports event along with Unbroken Rehabilitaion Center (both partner organizations of Direct Relief). Levitate specializes in creating prosthetics sports gear that’s affordable, durable, and easy to use; and now Levitate will be able to help Ukrainian amputees get on their feet.
With funding from Direct Relief, their team will supply running blades and other prostheses to patients at the country’s largest rehabilitation centers, Unbroken and Superhumans, as well as other partners identified throughout the program. The Levitate team will also personally do the training, fitting, and adjusting of prosthetics for the patients in Ukraine.
The founder of Levitate, Lasse Madsen, is an amputee himself and had to overcome a considerable series of financial and emotional hurdles to get the gear he needed, including time-consuming appointments and costly equipment that often failed to deliver on quality. He and his team are determined to make the process easier for others
Photo description: Lasse Madsen, co-founder of Danish NGO Levitate, fits a shoe to a new “everyday foot” built for Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr, who lost his right foot in combat in summer 2023. Volodymyr was the first recipient of a prosthetic limb from Levitate when it expanded its operations to Ukraine later that year. (Nick Allen/Direct Relief)
