Congolese children living with disabilities due to polio, paralysis, cerebral palsy, or club feet are less likely to attend school as their limited mobility restricts their access to educational opportunities.

STANDPROUD helps disabled Congolese children attain maximum mobility by crafting leg braces from locally-sourced materials in six brace-making workshops run by their local partner. The agency finances primary education for the disabled children who have received leg braces, about 200 children per year. In the ten years that StandProud has been providing services, over 4,000 children have received life-changing gifts of mobility and education.