The Universal Limbs Foundation

I don't know much about prosthetics.

I did some volunteer work with Variety, the children's charity.

And we talked about prosthetics for children for various reasons.

So I have a very small understanding of the work you do and how important it is and how it changes over a person's lifetime.

I'm curious how Universal Limbs came about.

What is the origin story?

Rasna?

Yeah, so I think, I think, yes, I would probably have a different perspective.

I'll go first.

But I, the way that this all started was, at least from my perspective, and the way that it started, the origin is the video from this Australian doctor that was up on Instagram, actually, Instagram became this main platform where you could see the pain and the suffering live.

Initially, it came out sensationalizing everything for younger kids to take a look at it, fashion and everything.

And it all just flipped.

At least for me, the world just flipped around.

And when I started looking at Instagram, it was about seeing the real pain and suffering around the world and just sitting there doing nothing.

And then when this video popped out from the Australian doctor, He was just talking about how he had this five minutes of his time in his life where he could take a break and then he paused and he was trying to share with the world how tiring it was to just look at the The kids and the adults as well come and go, and they didn't have the time to absorb the suffering that was happening and the shocking situation of how they didn't have any anesthesia and how they had to amputate the limbs.

And even... for the kids and i'm just like listening to that video and trying to understand the amount of pain that would go through a child or even a mom looking at the child on the table and and that happening to my child i think i don't know what's worse and i don't even know how to imagine that kind of pain and then just sitting in canada even though i'm a metaclass uh I come from a middle class family.

I still think, looking at that, that I am in luxury right now.

I'm sitting here in Canada with my engineering degree, and what am I doing? And initially, I was in a job that was just, you know, a sales job.

I am still in sales, but I just felt like there was a void.

There was no meaning to what I learned, and I wanted to try to apply it somewhere.

And that's how this came about.

to being and I try to put an initiative there, try to find people who are like-minded and eventually we did it and we have a nonprofit and yeah.

And that in itself is quite a journey.

I mean, that's a difficult process.

to create a not-for-profit organization with lots of provincial and federal hoops and restrictions and policies and board of directors, and it goes on.

I don't know much about prosthetics.

I did some volunteer work with Variety, the children's charity.

And we talked about prosthetics for children for various reasons.

So I have a very small understanding of the work you do and how important it is and how it changes over a person's lifetime.

I'm curious how Universal Limbs came about.

What is the origin story?

Rasna?

Yeah, so I think, I think, yes, I would probably have a different perspective.

I'll go first.

But I, the way that this all started was, at least from my perspective, and the way that it started, the origin is the video from this Australian doctor that was up on Instagram, actually, Instagram became this main platform where you could see the pain and the suffering live.

Initially, it came out sensationalizing everything for younger kids to take a look at it, fashion and everything.

And it all just flipped.

At least for me, the world just flipped around.

And when I started looking at Instagram, it was about seeing the real pain and suffering around the world and just sitting there doing nothing.

And then when this video popped out from the Australian doctor, He was just talking about how he had this five minutes of his time in his life where he could take a break and then he paused and he was trying to share with the world how tiring it was to just look at the The kids and the adults as well come and go, and they didn't have the time to absorb the suffering that was happening and the shocking situation of how they didn't have any anesthesia and how they had to amputate the limbs.

And even... for the kids and i'm just like listening to that video and trying to understand the amount of pain that would go through a child or even a mom looking at the child on the table and and that happening to my child i think i don't know what's worse and i don't even know how to imagine that kind of pain and then just sitting in canada even though i'm a metaclass uh I come from a middle class family.

I still think, looking at that, that I am in luxury right now.

I'm sitting here in Canada with my engineering degree, and what am I doing? And initially, I was in a job that was just, you know, a sales job.

I am still in sales, but I just felt like there was a void.

There was no meaning to what I learned, and I wanted to try to apply it somewhere.

And that's how this came about.

to being and I try to put an initiative there, try to find people who are like-minded and eventually we did it and we have a nonprofit and yeah.

And that in itself is quite a journey.

I mean, that's a difficult process.

to create a not-for-profit organization with lots of provincial and federal hoops and restrictions and policies and board of directors, and it goes on.