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What we are doing

Our work

Five programmes across four countries.

A wide view under the marquee at the Ilasan medical outreach in Lekki, Lagos, with volunteers working and people waiting on rows of chairs.
NigeriaCommunity medical outreach
A human hand resting on a table beside a green 3D printed prosthetic hand.
Costa Rica3D printed prosthetics
ThailandRegenerative treatment for osteoarthritisPilot ongoing. No photography of this programme yet.

Programmes of the Foundation

Delivered since the Foundation was registered in December 2024.

A girl receiving a bag of medicine at the pharmacy table at the Ilasan medical outreach in Lekki, Lagos.

Nigeria

A field in Lekki, for two days.

General medicine, dentistry, eye care and counselling, run side by side under canopies on borrowed ground, at no cost to anyone who came. Our delivery partner runs two at this scale every year.

It is the most documented thing the Foundation has done, and the whole day is published rather than summarised.

Nico standing and smiling, holding out his green and blue 3D printed forearm.

Costa Rica and partner clinics

Touch reimagined.

With Fundación Biónica we deliver 3D printed upper limb prosthetics to children and adults, fitted through partner clinics. Their own banner reads “we transform lives”, and Nico is what that looks like in practice.

A printed limb is made to a person rather than selected from a shelf, which is why the programme reaches children at all: a child who outgrows a fitting can be measured again rather than left waiting for one that fits.

They are not just limbs, they offer a different future.

Thailand pilot, United Kingdom in discussion

The work the Foundation was registered to do.

An ongoing pilot in mechanical stem cell separation, used to treat osteoarthritis, is running in Thailand. The separation device is printable, which is what makes it deployable somewhere without a laboratory behind it.

This is not a side project. The Foundation’s registered objects name osteoarthritis specifically: advancing the education of medical practitioners in treating it, providing equipment and resources to the hospitals that do, and supporting research into regenerative treatments on the condition that useful results are shared. Thailand is named in its area of benefit alongside England and Wales.

Both statements are on the public register, entry 1211435, and can be read there rather than taken from us.

Before the Foundation

Work carried out by the Sforza family before the Foundation was registered. It is recorded here as history, not as charitable activity of the registered charity.

  • Three generations of a family standing together on a road at a Syrian refugee camp.

    Syria

    Medical missions, supplies and shelter

    Family work carried out before the Foundation was registered. It is recorded here as history, not as charitable activity of the registered charity.

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  • A finished single storey house with a planted front garden on a residential street in Brazil.

    Brazil

    Homes via Minha Casa, Minha Vida

    Family work carried out before the Foundation was registered. It is recorded here as history, not as charitable activity of the registered charity.

    Archive