ICRC’s physical rehabilitation and social inclusion initiatives

Dear friends,
With your support, ICRC teams help people with disabilities and those injured by conflict to walk again, regain independence, and rebuild their lives.

Conflict and violence often leave people with life-changing injuries, while health systems lack the capacity to provide long-term care. ICRC specialists and local partners are on the ground fitting prostheses and orthoses, offering physiotherapy, and supplying wheelchairs and walking aids in rehabilitation centres across the world.
We also make sure beneficiaries can access these services by covering their transport and accommodation, and we promote inclusion through vocational training, education, and disability sports. Wherever possible, our projects focus on strengthening national capacities, so that people with disabilities can count on high-quality rehabilitation services for years to come.

IMPACT NUMBERS

In 2024:
• 262,511 people worldwide received physical rehabilitation services
• 21,688 prostheses and 113,136 orthoses produced and fitted
• 66 rehabilitation professionals were sponsored for advanced training in prosthetics, orthotics, and more including in Colombia
In 2025 (so far):
• 1.1 million physiotherapy sessions provided worldwide during the first half of the year
• 84,000 people fitted with prostheses or orthoses and provided with physiotherapy globally.
• Training and education are supported in over 20 countries, including Bangladesh, Cambodia and Ethiopia, building national capacities in prosthetics, orthotics and physiotherapy

PRICE POINTS

Global:

• 50 CHF can provide 5 pairs of crutches during physical rehabilitation process.
• 330 CHF can provide mobility to a person with physical disabilities (including people injured by clashes, mines, cluster munitions and explosive remnants of war) through provision of tailor-made physical rehabilitation services including prosthesis, orthosis and wheelchairs.
• 100 CHF can provide 4 walking frames as mobility aid for patients with balance difficulties

Context specific:

• 270 CHF can provide a suitable wheelchair assembled according to the needs of an amputee or a patient with a spinal cord injury in GAZA
• 600 CHF can provide a set of basic equipment to initiate physiotherapy activities in the ICRC supported hospital ward in SUDAN.

Thank you for standing with us on the side of humanity and making our work possible.