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On November 27, CNN honored their Top 10 Heroes of 2008 during a star-studded gala presentation. Last month we profiled one of those 10, Tad Agoglia. Another so honored on Thanksgiving was David Puckett of Savannah, Georgia, along with his ministry, Positive Image Prosthetics and Orthotics (PIPO).
CNN related that PIPO provides indigent, handicapped patients in Southeast Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas region with no charge artificial limb and orthopedic brace care.
According to connectsavannah.com, Puckett first visited the area on a missions trip when he was 18. Noticing the tremendous need for medical and physiological care, "I said to myself that if I ever get into a field where I can come back and help these people substantially, then that's what I'd like to do," he told the news site on November 25. "Ten years later I found myself in the field of prosthetics and orthotics, I got into my own practice in 1999 and I thought it was a perfect fit, having my own practice and being able to do the mission program."
The organization's website, www.pipoinc .corn, relates that since November 2000 Puckett and PIPO have made 43 trips and provided prosthetics/orthotics for 480 ...
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