Riding for ROMP 2010

ROMP Riders

Patrick Mathay

Who are you?
I’m a 23 year old Colorado native with a few degrees from the University of Kansas.

Why are you riding for ROMP?
I spent last summer conducting a study on post-prosthetic delivery for the Range of Motion Project. I’d meet with former patients in their homes, mostly in remote areas of rural Guatemala, and see first hand how people with disabilities are affected by poverty. I’m riding for them-- the money we raise will help ROMP employ a full-time physical therapist and create a case management program. Rehabilitation shouldn’t be limited to within the clinic walls.

What do you like most about biking?
Going really fast.

What’s your ideal day for biking?
Sunny, cool, I-pod, plenty of steep downhills, somewhere I’ve never been before.

Plans after the ride ends in September?
I have an amazing girlfriend waiting for me in Boston. Law school is on the horizon for 2011, as is plenty of quality time with the friends and family who have supported me on this wild journey.

Greg Krupa

Who are you?
I am a 23 year old student at the University of Oregon. I have volunteered with the Range of Motion Project for over three years now, spending a year working between both clinics in Guatemala and Ecuador between 2007 and 2008.

Why are you riding for ROMP?
I am riding for ROMP to help alleviate poverty in the developing world, raise awareness of ROMP’s mission, and experience some of the most beautiful landscape in the world.

What do you like most about biking?
I enjoy riding downhill after a massive climb, wind and sun in my face, and tunes buzzing in my ears.

What’s your ideal day for biking?
A long day through the redwoods, mid to upper 70s, plenty of grueling climbs, vistas, and sword ferns in site.

Plans after the ride ends in September?
Graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon and eventually enter law school, hopefully somewhere in the northwest. And, of course, continue riding!

The Range of Motion Project

The Mission of ROMP is to provide prosthetic limbs and orthotic braces to those who cannot afford or do not have access to these services, empowering them to actively contribute to their families and communities.

ROMP provides prosthetic limbs, orthotic bracing, and training throughout the developing world. Our goals are to:

Increase US awareness of the lack of rehabilitative medicine throughout the world.
Assemble teams to evaluate and fabricate prosthetic limbs for amputees within Zacapa and other areas with amputees in need throughout the developing world
Train local practitioners to pursue ongoing and sustainable services in the communities we work in.

The Vision of ROMP is a more equal distribution of prosthetic and orthotic services throughout the world, facilitating independence through mobility.

ROMP recognizes the hardship of living in poverty without a prosthetic or orthotic device and understands how important these, often times simple devices, are to those who do not have access to them.

In many cases, a prosthetic or orthotic device is a critical component in a disabled person's rehabilitation. With this "tool", independence, mobility and involvement in community and the socio-economic structure can become more attainable. Rehabilitation has the power to increase visibility of the disabled and awareness can change attitudes and help people see that "disability" is only as crippling as the barriers we let stand in our minds and in our world.

Together, with the help of trained prosthetists and orthotists, care givers, volunteers and generous donors, ROMP's vision of offering independence and hope to countless individuals will become a reality.

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