ABOUT US
Our goal is to help people with disabilities.
The Walk and Work Foundation, Inc., is duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Philippines with registration number CN200925194 issued on March 5, 2009. The location of the center is within the district of Brgy. Hibao-an Norte, Mandurriao, Iloilo City, Philippines.
The center focuses on the production of prosthetics and orthotics making them affordable to poor persons with disabilities. The center also deploys persons with disabilities as its workers, thereby providing them with livelihood projects and making them responsible members of society despite their handicaps. Walk and Work Foundation, Inc. was officially started in 2009 with the aim of reaching out to patients and clients who sustained various disabilities due to sickness, congenital deformities, and accidents.
It had a sitting Board lead by Dr. Jessie B. Villareal to manage and its staff. The Foundation is closely supported by Liliane Foundation and NORFIL Foundation Philippines through its various projects.
The project started in Iloilo City in 2009. Approximately there are 8,000 PWD’s in the whole Region VI alone and most of them are classified as orthopedically disabled like a person with amputations in various forms. Victims of Cerebro-Vascular accidents (strokes) and congenital cases or children born with birth defects. Most of these PWD’s are deprived of any help and access to medical care. The planned strategy is to provide access to orthopedic assistive devices like prostheses, orthosis, and wheelchairs in order for PWD’s to be able to walk again and find gainful employment. This will be an integrated approach with cooperation between the different government agencies like PCSO, DSWD, and PHIC.
PURPOSE
To provide good quality prostheses and orthoses, including repair and fitting. It will also involve in physical rehabilitation, orthopedic, physiatrist consultation and related services. To provide assistance to Person with disability (PWD) to improve their living conditions and their quality of life. To create social and economic value through wealth creating programs that will have at least a double bottom line (social and financial) that accrue to the PWD and improve their financial capacity and become productive citizen in the social economy.
VISION
Enable individuals with disability to develop confidence, to walk and work with dignity, nurturing inclusivity and independence in society.
MISSION
Provide affordable and personalized assistive devices with rehabilitation support to enhance mobility and educational scholarships to achieve dreams to have a better quality of life.
CORE VALUES
EMPOWERMENT
Empowering persons with limb differences to lead a meaningful life
INCLUSIVITY
Equal access to prosthetic solutions for all regardless of socioeconomic status
QUALITY
Committed to deliver high-quality prosthetic devices
COMPASSION
Compassionate care and support
INNOVATION
Embrace technological advancements to improve prosthetic designs and functions
COMMUNITY
Building a supportive community for persons with limb difference
GOALS
ACCESSIBILITY
Expand outreach programs to reach more communities and provide prosthetic solutions with subsidized rates.
QUALITY CARE
Training and development for prosthetists and rehabilitation specialist for personalized and effective care.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
Integrate digital tools for remote monitoring to provide support to prosthetic users.
REHABILITATION SUPPORT
Develop rehabilitation programs to help adapt to prosthetic devices and regain mobility.
SUSTAINABILITY
Use eco-friendly materials for production to protect the environment, implement recycling programs to repurpose old prosthetic devices and minimize waste
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Advocate for policies and initiatives that promote inclusivity and accessibility for persons with disabilities
OUR BENEFECIARIES
The Walk and Work Foundation, Inc. assists and accepts all clients with orthopedic disabilities. It more especially prioritizes those children and youth with disabilities from zero to twenty-five years old living in crisis and poverty situations.
A referral is done in cases the needs of the clients cannot be catered to by the center.
GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE
The Walk and Work Foundation, Inc. develop and create a regional independent facility a Prosthetic and Orthotic Center to cover and provide service to the whole island of Panay: Iloilo, Capiz, Aklan, Antique, Guimaras, and as well as Negros Occidental, these six (6) provinces comprises the whole of Region VI. Furthermore, a physiotherapy center will be established within the facility to provide the PWD’s with their rehab needs in the future.
GENERAL POLICIES
Mainly the services provided by the Foundation are the fabrication of the Prosthesis and Orthosis and other assistive devices that primarily answer the needs of its beneficiaries to regain their mobility and to have active participation in the community. For ages 0-25 years old beneficiaries, the Foundation shoulders all the expenses in the fabrication of their assistive devices, including programs and services in which some of its beneficiaries are involved like in education where the Foundation gives support.
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About Us
The Walk and Work Foundation Inc. is devoted to helping persons with disabilities to be able to become productive members of society.
Open Hours
Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sat-Sun: Closed
Contacts
Office Address
Guzman, Mandurriao, Iloilo City 5000
Contact Numbers
(033) 321 6074
+63 923 087 1643 (Sun)
+63 956 407 3082 (Globe)
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