Ho Offers Calligraphy Catalog

A 24-page catalog of Ho, the amputee calligrapher's original work is now available from Malaysia.  The self-taught calligrapher managed to develop her own style of calligraphy after losing her upper limbs after an accident in 1990.

A Sample Page of Ho's Unique Calligraphy

The cost is $6.00 or RM18 plus $3.00 or RM9 postage. Contact:

He Lan Gui, 12F Jalan Hanag Jabet, 75200 Malacca Malaysia

ABC News Interview With Dr. Ted Carrick

A fascinating  ABC Chiropractic Neurology Interview with Dr Ted Carrick, a chiropractic neurologist of Marietta Georgia on the many non-invasive modalities he combines to correct the effects of brain trauma. In the clip, a young athlete with severe brain injury achieves dramatic movement success with the use of mirror therapy.

The Courage of Dr. BJ Miller

We at End The Pain Project are deeply impressed by the compassion and courage of Dr. Miller, a triple amputee and current head of the SF Zen Hospice Project.  Read the full article at SF Gate.

IASP Insight article by Moira Judith Mann: Vietnam Mirror Therapy Project Expands to Cambodia

The International Association for the Study of Pain's first issue of its printed member newsletter,  IASP Insight, includes Moira Judith Mann's Vietnam Mirror Therapy Project Expands to Cambodia. The full article, which appears on pages 16-17 in the June 2012 newsletter, can be read online at: http://www.iasp-pain.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/IASPInsight/default.htm

Your Vote Needed by June 7 For ETPP to Win $5000

End The Pain Project Needs Your Vote by June 7 to Win $5000 for 2012 Amputee Projects in Rwanda & Indonesia

Moira Judith Mann, Co-Founder of End The Pain Project,has been selected as a finalist in the first online Marigold Ideas For Good Contest - http://www.takepart.com/thebestexoticmarigoldhotel/voting/april , one of 15 innovative people making a remarkable difference in their community or the larger world. The prize is $5,000. Starting May 31, all finalists are featured on the Marigold Ideas For Good Contest for a round of public voting from May 31-June 7.

And that's where you come in -- to cast your vote each day through June 7, and also urge your friends to vote daily for Moira Judith Mann before the contest ends at http://www.takepart.com/thebestexoticmarigoldhotel/voting/april  

What will End The Pain Project achieve when Moira Judith wins?

When you vote for Moira Judith Mann, you are voting to help End The Pain Project win $5,000. This prize will be dedicated In 2012-13 to:

• Bring Mirror Therapy training workshops to facilitators and amputees in Indonesia. Loss of limbs in Indonesia are due to the 2005 tsunami, road accidents, leprosy and other diseases.
  
• Send unbreakable mirrors to amputees in Rwanda along with Mirror Therapy training materials. Jean De Dieu Tuyisenge, a Rwandan-Canadian who lost a leg as the result of a machete attack, is currently helping End The Pain Project to network with rehabilitation and health centers that assist some of the 26,000 Rwandan amputees. Most are survivors of the 1994 genocide.
  

This contest is pretty cool, right? Of course, we can only win the $5,000 if you and your friends vote each day for Moira Judith Mann before the June 7th midnight deadline! Thanks for your support!  http://www.takepart.com/thebestexoticmarigoldhotel/voting/april

for further information about ETPP, please click http://endthepainproject.org and http://endthepainprojectupdate.blogspot.com.

Thank you for your support!

Sin Chew Daily, the Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper, publishes article by Ng Yen Choo  about Hoe the amputee calligrapher and ETPP on the front page of its Melaka, Malaysia edition in January, 2012.

HOE --AN INSPIRED AMPUTEE CALLIGRAPHER

Meet Hoe, whom I met on my recent trip to SE Asia to teach mirror therapy ... one of the most amazing people on the face of the earth. --Moira Judith Mann

Hoe, a 42-year old double upper limb amputee is a self-taught calligrapher who started practicing the art twenty years ago after an industrial accident in China severed her left arm and her right hand.

 Hoe straps a calligraphy brush to her right arm stub and then, as she reports, uses her phantom hand to guide her strokes.

 Hoe produces calligraphy by donation from a street stand in Malaka, Malaysia, supporting two daughters going to university in China with her earnings.

Even twenty years after her accident, Hoe experiences phantom limb pain, particularly in the remaining stub of her left arm. End The Pain Project has taken steps to relieve this pain through various methods, including Farabloc and an EMF band.

Hoe has great dignity and focuses on perfecting her calligraphy style. She hopes to inspire other amputees through her efforts.

Hoe explaining her calligraphy at her street stand in Melaka, Malaysia.

 Hoe and Moira Judith Mann, Co-Founder of End The Pain Project in December 2011, Melaka Malaysia.

 

In February, 2012, Shannon Nill, an upper arm amputee from Oregon, displays the calligraphy created for him by Hoe in gratitude for an EMF band donated by Nill that helps her sleep. Nill uses the EMF band for sounder sleep as well.