Mick Ebeling is the founder of Not Impossible Labs, which is known for the Eyewriter (interview here: http://youtu.be/irwntqQavaY) and now, Project Daniel. Not Impossible Labs uses technology and crowd-sourcing to create viable real-world medical solutions for people who might not otherwise be able to have them.
Daniel lost both of his arms due to the violence of war in South Sudan before he was 14. He considered his life not worth living. Now, he has two 3D-printed prosthetic arms and is able to feed himself again! Now, a 3D-printed prosthetic lab was successfully set up in Sudan, with a trained staff to help others like Daniel. Mick Ebeling tells Ana Kasparian the full story and more in this fascinating interview.
Project Daniel and Eyewriter are two monumental projects that have helped many, but that’s not all for Not Impossible. Check out http://www.notimpossiblenow.com/ for more projects, and to see how you can help.
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…. It doesn’t matter the package, form and color in which it appears, barbarie is still the same and should never acceptable.
I am glad to see this story on TYT. I have been following Ebeling’s work. He is really a cool guy, doing a great job and deserve all the thanks and credits for that. But I still don’t like it anytime half of a story is told. That’s what lead people to vote or make political decisions in Western countries, not knowing how it affects lives abroad.
I was born in Ivory Coast that was a very rich and peaceful African country, very well on the path of development, where more than 50% of the population were immigrants integrated and prospering. We didn’t need to go anywhere. It was the opposite way. Even Europeans and Asians were immigrating in our country seeking a better life. Then I witnessed first hand how a country can be destabilized by external economic and political interests from Western and Eastern countries. when this country plunged into some kind of civil war that lasted ten years. But years prior to this, I moved into my father’s country that is a poor country without oil and diamonds. Life was much simpler. Tribes in rural areas there have been living in peace for centuries through traditional treaties. The few conflicts that happened between them never lasted more than a day or two because they were fighting with spears and clubs – no mines, grenade or machine gun. So, they always grew tired and quickly realized that they had to go back to their crops otherwise soon they would not be having food for long time. The victims often had only bruises or broken limbs. Lol!!!!
In most society away from external stimuluses, the smart individuals – that often constitue the majority – always outsmart the minority of impaired and incoherent ones, get together and with means available to them, control others’ tendency for what they perceive as violence and crimes through laws, for the benefit of the entire society. But, mostly from the twenties century up to now, there have been a systematic pattern of destabilization of these fragile equilibriums across the world by external actors – Western and Eastern countries – that went around and financed these minorities of incoherent individuals in many societies or countries. These sudaneses don’t know how to build mines and don’t have money to buy them. Somebody gave weapons to a minority without any vision and established them as the controlling power. Just the same way as Al Qaida was a minority among a majority of peaceful muslims until they started to get fundings from external sources!
My father was unofficially adopted by a White lady from France who took him to live with her family from the age of 13 until he was adult. I was born in foreign country and spend my entire life living with people from other cultures. Charles Aznavour, one of the best French singer that ever lived, is one my favorite. I was pained to learn when I was kid that his family was a victim of a genocide. In fact they were Turkish Armenians. Whether it is in the US, in Soudan, Syria, Mexico or East Ukraine, the human distress should be addressed indiscriminately. It doesn’t the package, form and color in which it appears, barbarie is still the same and should never acceptable.
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/170-more-blog-posts-from-david-william-pear/1911-africa-south-sudan-oil-and-war