Solon donates P.5 m to CDC prosthesis lab, training center

CLARK FREEPORT – Pampanga 1st District Rep. Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin has donated P500,000 to the Clark Development Corporation’s (CDC) prosthesis laboratory and training center based inside the Clark Polytechnic here, the state-owned CDC announced.

CDC President Benigno N. Ricafort said Lazatin on Thursday, July 16, awarded to the CDC a check worth P500,000 which was derived from the solon’s Priority Development Assistance Fund.

Ricafort said the CDC established the prosthesis laboratory and training center last February 15, 2009 which aims to provide more prosthetic legs to hundreds of amputees in Pampanga and other nearby provinces.

According to Ricafort, the prosthesis center is part of CDC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. He added that the CDC has forged ties with the Physicians for Peace (PFP) in close collaboration with Pampanga congressional representatives, mayors, Kapampangan Development Foundation, and various civic groups.

Ricafort added that the partnership between the CDC and the PFP begun more than a year ago with the official launching of the Walking Free Pampanga, a program supported by Lazatin that aims to provide free prostheses and wheelchairs for the indigent amputees.

“The goal is to enable them and their caregivers to go back to productive life. The project has provided 124 prosthetic legs to more than 100 patients and 172 wheelchairs to date,” Ricafort said.