Project Walk Again: Prosthesis Center

The Rotary Club of Metro Novaliches Caloocan, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Jangheung, Korea, established and opened a Prosthetics Center at the Opens at the Jose N. Rodriguez Hospital (Tala Hospital), in Novaliches, Caloocan, as part of its 'Project Walk Again' initiative. 

The Center will provide affordable, locally-accessible prosthetic limbs, fittings, rehabilitation services, and follow-up care for underprivileged members of the community.

This marks the club's second prosthetic mission. What made this different is permanence: a structure and program rooted in the community, designed to remove travel, cost, and access barriers, and to deliver continuous care.   For individuals who have experienced limb loss, the journey toward recovery is often long and deeply personal. With this workshop now within the hospital, patients will have access to timely, customized prosthetic care close to home.

This means shorter waiting times, continuous follow-up, and integrated rehabilitation support—from surgery to fitting, to therapy, and beyond. It allows us to provide care that is not only medical, but holistic and compassionate.

This partnership demonstrates how continued collaboration and innovation between healthcare institutions and civic organizations can create lasting, meaningful change.

Beyond restoring movement, the Prosthesis Center will also help restore livelihoods. It creates meaningful employment opportunities for skilled therapists, prosthetic technicians, and assembly specialists who will dedicate their expertise to crafting and fitting prostheses.

In doing so, we are not only rebuilding lives—we are building careers, strengthening our local workforce, and contributing to the economic growth of our community. This initiative reflects a sustainable model of healthcare: one that heals patients while generating opportunities for professionals to serve and thrive.

We are not celebrities or powerful figures. We are neighbors, Rotarians, medical professionals, and donors united by a simple conviction: mobility matters. Restoring someone's ability to walk restores dignity, independence, and hope.

We invite individuals, organizations, and local businesses to support Project Walk Again through donations, volunteer time (rehab, admin, outreach), or help spread the word so more people in need can access the center. 

Together we can give many more people the chance to walk again.

Written by: Good President Rheynald Vincent R. Gerolaga and PP/Sec. Sette Velasco, Rotary Club of Metro Novaliches Caloocan