COPE Laos - Helping people move on

COPE stands for Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise. Founded in 1997, COPE is a local organization that works with the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC), Lao Ministry of Health and five provincial rehabilitatoin centres in an innovative partnership developing rehabilitation services across Lao PDR.

  • COPE provides prosthetics and mobility devices for people who require them, free of charge if they cannot afford to pay for them.
  • COPE supplies information to people about the types of services available.
  • COPE supports the develpment of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program that includes physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
  • COPE works to develop strategies to ensure that services are sustainable in the long term and always available.

COPE and the NRC together are the only provider of prosthetic, orthotic and rehabilitation services in Laos.  All of COPE's administration is undertaken in Vientiane and is independently audited.

News & Events

   

COPE - The movie. The story about a cluster bomb survivor. Watch here

Download and read the latest COPE newsletter

Join the COPE concert on 10 December. Read more

Buy a leg on behalf of another person. Read more



Sharing of knowledge on disability and development. Read more

Congratulations to the winning team NRA! Check out the photos of an eventful day.

New date 6 August: Come and celebrate the first anniversary of the ENTRY INTO FORCE of the Convention on Cluster Munitions! Read more

On Sunday, 31 July 2011 severe rain hit Vientiane, and our Visitor Centre got flooded. We need your support. Read on...

Santar's Story

Santar

While on holiday in November 2006 in Muang Sing in Northern Lao PDR we heard about a little boy who had lost his leg.... more