i lived in india for three years i
I am expatriate with my new
companion or a new adventure
i came up with some great moments
of life and two children born in pune in
the eighth largest city in the country with 5
million people india is a country
extraordinary and I was
deeply touched especially on the
handicap
in the west we have the art of hiding
people with disabilities so I know
not you but me I come across that very
rarely wheelchairs or
people with disabilities
a bit like society and
arrange to hide all this in
alive and in india
it’s another light that came to
me the handicap of any kind were
in the street on a daily basis so I’m going
you tell it with lightness and
children’s words at red lights
we meet merchant hunchbacked men
like quasimodo or going to the market
zones will be put on skateboard
board made of recycling pallets and
ball bearings or even a
armless man in this bombay train
he had around his neck a pouch uem
exactly the same as the one
that children use when they
fly alone for m card
Boarding and passport which I
challenged the most it’s not
the absence of members of people that
I met
it’s their ability to adapt with
few things and their smile really
surprising
juan new caledonia i cross a
another smile that of a young
Caledonian who received a
metropolitan association a
prosthesis tomorrow printed in 3d I
prefers to say a playful apparatus
she’s called mitsouko she lost l
use of the fingers of a hand following a
domestic accident
I am very interested in its history
and 3d printing
very quickly I had the idea of
make me too hands and
arm for people who need it
so why not follow the example of
this association based in Paris and
redo a little bit the same model in
new caledonia this maker network
of manufacturers is present today
in more than 80 countries
I discover what genesis is
main reason why these
gear are made the genesis
is a congenital malformation
she represents in France
metropolitan between 300 and 350
newborns every year so we
find hands with little fingers
with a few fingers or just
simple forearm tips the
prostheses has been around for a long time
there are technical advances and
the more it costs a lot of
thousands of euros to several tens
thousands of euros depending on
technologies and when it addresses
growing children
they quickly become obsolete
it is estimated that 12 to 18 months of use
after they become too small
that’s where 3d printing comes in
so we would actually say that this
technology was made for that well
sure to make a hand in
3d printing it takes time but
remains that the final cost is totally
marginal compared to prostheses
existing
we are a few tens of euros
I would say a few thousand francs
peaceful then we have to get started and
to create an association you have to
to be at least 3 I organize an aperitif
I invite my young neighbors I
represents the project is for the shot
they adhere to it and that’s where the
adventure begins we create
the association enamel ncsoft pacific
I am the president and I hide from you
not that I am delighted with the news
turn that it takes with a little more
year of existence the youngest of
team
at 22 and the youngest 51
we are to date a dozen
other neighbors came to join
the association and not just for
then we started quickly
job
very quickly a question arises how much
is there any cada genesi in new
Caledonia and the South Pacific
again we did not manage to have
numbers
anyway anyway before helping
everybody
we had to start with a first
case our first wonder
goes back over a year ago a friend of
the family of a little boy we
contact via our website
this little boy lives on the island of lifou
he is suffering from an agenesis of the
right hand
some exchanges with the pope at a
series of photos the measurements and we
realize the main piece we
ship the palm of a skype hand
will validate the dimension and
we are launching the complete manufacture
here we are on the eve of the
official discount
discover mayol ten years this is the
first time we test a
equipment that we have just realized
with our little hands in a few
second we understand we understand that
the body diagram of this child was going
change
so I do not hide the emotions and
our pride
some children met and
our miss enamel is in charge of
offer the devices then as the
news goes fast things got
accelerated and we received
other requests from a child of four
months until teenagers play
down to 6 years old it’s part of another
island of the New Caledonian archipelago
he also has a double agenesis
in his case the request was to
to make an apparatus that could
facilitate learning
writing
we met the parents as well as the
medical team
so we model his hand in 3d with
a scanner the one with which he writes
already the work of our volunteer
mechanical engineer by profession
was to isolate the dimensions of the
hand then we must model the
data to create a hull at its
size there is a design software
3d
once the created file has been printed
the pieces we made five
prototypes the final piece was
delivered last June accompanied by a
occupational therapist plays downstream quickly
found its marks and to the great
surprise of his mistress
he was writing for the first time
words in attached letters
so at the very beginning of the sale of
the adventure plays with valves had drawn
his hand in colors past them
technical difficulties and now
that we have a return of use
we will make him one at his
customization request and when he
bounces in iran will do a little bit
bigger and maybe with others
colors
these simple devices
technologically are not that low
cost having a hand or an arm
with colors can also change the
look at disability through and
other children and we discover a
new facet that superhero
we offered last year to
alessandro this little Noumean of four
years a hand fans of superheroes he
wanted a hand like iron man his
twin brother emilio who does not have
of handicap him is a fan of captain
america
so we made them a
shield is like that there was no
jealous two characters marvel comics
man haiti six years we did a
nice meeting when we are
went to see him at papeete on the first
skype is that polynesia we had
noticed that the amplitude of his wrist
was not enough to operate
a hand so we chose to
make an arm so they could
take things easier
that’s what we assumed and that
walking he chose the color white for
the arm and his dad added some
Polynesian tattoos from evine and there a
pretty girl from bora bora
so we made him this
vanilla color apparatus following its
asks she avoids sitting the gaze a
little too heavy when she goes to the
big city in papeete
until a few weeks ago use it
a piece of pareo to hide his little
she accepted this apparatus
as a fashion accessory
by proposing to personalize
equipment for children and
teens
he is participating in the project and
invested and for once they have each
a unique model
we can all adapt the shape the color
I forgot to tell you for the hand
of iron man we had a comment from
catcher because he lacked the
hand the famous laser in the palm of
hand so I said we will not do it
the next time
the voice of this deaf technology
also to adults we handed
a few days ago to feel this
lysian fisherman 2 complete apparatus
to find more autonomy
so we are already working on the
version 2 where we scanned the
forearm this week the idea of
model the hulls for a better
maintaining them so that they have a better
prehension objects these devices
particularly when they are proposed to
children are enrolling in
learning the future prosthesis
that they will have there are more chances that
the success rate of use of
prostheses are superior than with
that of adults who is today
than 35 for oneself but for the moment
the equipment we manufacture does not
does not cost an arm
so personally I have the chance
to have four beautiful children
they all have their ten fingers then
why do I put so much energy into
all this disability does not concern me
directly
certainly, however, it touches me
the smiles of these children touch me
deeply then the whole team and
myself
at our level we are so
proud to contribute to the change of
look at disability and especially if
happy to receive smiles thank you
[Applause]
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