— UNICEF
HISTORIC PROGRAMS
Deformity Empowerment Foundation - Nigeria
In Nigeria, ALTSO partners with Deformity Empowerment Foundation (DEF), an organization that helps underprivileged children with limb deformities, by providing surgery, prosthetics, orthotics and rehabilitation. DEF also conducts medical outreaches for public enlightenment to discourage superstitious beliefs and prejudices that are detrimental to the survival of children born with deformities.
ALTSO's program with DEF benefits children who have limb disabilities and have undergone amputations due to congenital reasons and trauma related accidents. 
Many parents of the children in Nigeria who have been victim to extensive injury to their extremities choose a holistic route of medicine. A medicinal healer is far cheaper and more mainstream than traditional western medical practices. This often results in extreme infection requiring an amputation that must be performed to save the child's life.
Due to low availability and high costs of orthopedic equipment in Nigeria, ALTSO equips DEF with prosthetic and orthotic materials, walking aids and covers surgical and rehabilitative costs.
Healing Hands for Haiti
In Haiti, ALTSO partners with Healing Hands for Haiti, an organization that is dedicated to fostering the expansion of quality rehabilitation 
services for the physically disabled. It serves adults as well as children, and believes the best way to serve the people of Haiti is to enable them to serve themselves. With that intention, its program emphasizes rehabilitation education, clinical treatment, disability prevention and increasing public awareness of disabilities and rehabilitation in Haiti.
Since 1998, Healing Hands for Haiti has served thousands of Haitians through a full time rehabilitation clinic, an orthotic and prosthetic lab, wheelchair fitting and repair, school reintegration programs and a caregivers school. Haitian and foreign doctors volunteer on a part-time basis, and a full time nurse and clinical staff provide follow up care and services. Healing Hands for Haiti has grown each year, expanding into previously under-served areas through outreach clinics and by collaborating with other organizations.
Rehabilitation Centers For Children (RCFC), Kolkata - India
Housed in three buildings in a verdant campus on the outskirts of South Kolkata, 
RCFC has, since 1973, steadily furthered its mission of aiding children with disabilities so they can lead purposeful lives. Volunteer orthopedic surgeons from city hospitals evaluate children in the hospital block, and those assigned to surgery are cared for in the residential block until they are well enough to go home - sometimes for well over 6 months. While in residence, the children are well cared for, given nutritious meals, and engaged in academic activities and vocational training to build their skills.
A Leg To Stand On is providing several hundred children with prosthetic devices custom made in the RCFC lab by skilled prosthetists who work with physiotherapists, doctors, and the children's families to fit and train each child with the best possible solution for his or her condition. RCFC also holds camps in the interior areas surrounding Kolkata from a base in Bolpur village 130 miles from Kolkata. Young rural children from across state lines are brought to RCFC for treatment. The organization has won state awards for its work with disabled children and has been cited as a resource center to guide and train others in the field.
Project Hope - Belize
Project Hope Belize (Project Hope Belize) is the only prosthetic and orthotic facility in all 
of Belize to serve the 300,000 people in this Central American country. Concerned and compassionate prosthetic professionals first visited Belize on an initial medical mission in 1996, and made a personal commitment to offer professional care, standardized materials and on-going service to help the disabled population of Belize. The project has grown steadily and today has a dedicated and functional workshop staffed by a manager/technician who runs the clinic 3 days per week to provide continuity and follow up services for all patients. Since its inception, Project Hope Belize has provided mobility aids to over 140 people at little or no cost.
In 2008, Project Hope Belize seeks to expand its services to help more children. A Leg To Stand On is supporting this effort and is funding materials, supplies and components so that the needs of 80 prosthetic pediatric patients will be fully taken care of.
Ecole St. Vincent's - Haiti
Ecole St. Vincent's is situated in a 3-storied campus in the heart of Port au Prince in Haiti. Started in 1944 for 6 students with disabilities, it now has 350 students with multiple disabilities who are given schooling, medical and dental care and food and clothing. 150 children are boarders. The campus houses offices, 16 classrooms, a music area, a medical clinic which sees 1000 pediatric cases monthly, a dental clinic, an operating theater and recovery room. There is also an eye clinic and a prosthetic workshop which A Leg To Stand On is helping support. The workshop is staffed by deaf workers and provides braces, orthoses and prosthetic devices to the children in the school and members of the general public.
Mukti, Chennai - India
The children who come to Mukti are usually afflicted with cerebral palsy or polio. 
Mukti's professional staff has fashioned a light weight caliper for these children to improve mobility. A well known regional resource for people with disabilities, Mukti has 2 locations: Chennai and Pondicherry, from where they help scores of people daily with free assistance to deal with their disabilities. They also employ several former patients to run their for-profit printing press and orthotics workshop.
Mukti is also supported by the sale of paintings donated by contemporary Indian artists to an art gallery started by Mukti's founder, Meena Dadha.
With our assistance, Mukti is providing custom made light weight calipers to several hundred children who visit their free center in Chennai.
WALK Foundation, Andhra Pradesh
WALK Foundation was founded in 1996 by a team of orthopedic surgeons who understood the need to provide gratis or low-cost medical care to those who could otherwise not afford it.
ALTSO's support will provide free corrective surgery, prosthetic limbs, calipers and braces to WALK's most economically disadvantaged pediatric patients. WALK Foundation is one of the few clinics of its kind in all of Andhra Pradesh; to ensure that children who live in rural villages far from the facility are identified and helped, ALTSO also supports the cost of their transportation to and from the clinic.