What happened to those animals that were unable to walk? Think of a person that doesn’t have an arm or a leg, imagine how hard their life is?
How difficult would our life would be without our leg?
One of the exploration I took this year was to spend seven weeks working on the Disabled Animal project. It is a class that intentionally targeting the disabled animal and try as hard as we can to help them to have a better life.
So what did we do in this exploration?
Problem statement: the need for artificial limbs of disabled animals to restore function.
Mission: to create an alternative or a prosthetic animals limbs + Small Animals
During our discovery, we found different organizations in the city that work in the same field. We were able to communicate with them and went to there place to learn about the animal they host. One of the places we went was PPAWS, a veterinarian clinic in Phnom Penh. They worked with dogs and cats. There are a few dogs that were unable to walk. After this trip we sees the potential to help those disabled animals. Although our help might not be as big , however, it might be as big for the animal that was adversary from the suffered.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t continue to the next round of the project which was to build the prosthetic limbs through 3D design platform and implementing it onto the animals leg. But something that I learned from this exploration, is that there’s a need to help even for the animals, life is uncertainty and we never know what really will be happen. Therefore, while we are having time, spend it wisely and help those who need our help because our small help can change their life to be better.