Global Impact: Inside KSrelief’s Prosthetic Mission to Provide Sustainable Care

As Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian arm, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) provides support for vulnerable individuals in war-torn regions. To this end, the Center has launched several voluntary prosthetic medical projects to enhance the health of people who have lost limbs.

These initiatives are part of the Center’s voluntary medical programs designed to extend its aid efforts beyond emergency relief into sustainable care, breathing a new life into people who have endured the burden of conflicts, crises, and natural disasters.

Humanity Without Borders

Driving the News: KSrelief concluded a seven-day voluntary prosthetics medical project in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday, July 26, 2026. Led by a medical team of seven volunteers, the program successfully fitted 21 prosthetic limbs for beneficiaries.

Backstory: The Center launched a similar project in Budapest from June 22-29, 2026, fitting prosthetic limbs for 20 individuals. The effort aims to relief the suffering of amputees across the world and restore their hope.

Artificial Limbs Program

The Big Picture: Launched by KSrelief, the Artificial Limbs Program aims to provide amputees with free custom-made prosthetic devices and physical rehabilitative care through permanent and temporary volunteer centers to restore mobility for the victims of conflicts and crises.

Between the Lines: KSrelief launched the program in response to the rising cases of amputation resulting from landmine and explosive device incidents in Yemen. The program later expanded to cover refugees across the world.

Key Objectives:

• Providing high-quality artificial limbs.
• Training local cadres to manufacture prosthetic devices and provide rehabilitation services.
• Enhancing health institutions’ capacities to provide care for amputees in the future.

How It Works: The Artificial Limbs centers perform:

• Evaluation: Physical and psychological evaluation to assess fit for prosthetics.
• Manufacturing: Custom-made devices for each amputee.
• Rehabilitation: Physical therapy, device training, and ongoing technical maintenance.

Beneficiary Countries

The Context: Yemen and Syria have been the key beneficiaries from the Artificial Limbs Program. From 2011 to 2024, KSrelief implemented 40 projects with a total cost of over $39 million.

Yemen

KSrelief has supported and financed Artificial Limbs Centers in the governorates of Ma’rib, Aden, Taiz and Seiyun, providing free services for amputees who have lost their limbs due to terrorist Houthi militia bombings or landmines. According to KSrelief’s data in late 2023, the total cost of the project was estimated at $30,102 million, benefiting around 63,610 individuals.

By the Numbers: From January 1 to May 31, 2026, the ninth phase of KSrelief-supported Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Center in Aden provided prosthetic limbs and physical rehabilitation for Yemeni people:

• 8,439 services.
• 3,089 individuals.
• 132 prosthetic and orthotic devices fitted.
• 6,574 physiotherapy services for 1,448 beneficiaries.
• 259 technical rehabilitation services.
• 335 medical consultation services.
• 1,139 technical consultation services for 915 individuals.

Syria

From January 24 to 31, 2026, KSrelief ran a voluntary medical project for orthopedic surgery in Damascus, with 16 volunteers involved. The medical team successfully performed 45 joint replacement surgeries (for the hip and knee) and 31 specialized surgeries for hand deformities.

In August 2025, the Center launched a prosthetics and rehabilitation project under the Saudi “Amal” program to support the Syrian people.

The project provided:

• 75 artificial limbs.
• 91 physiotherapy sessions.
• 50 wheelchairs.

Support Beyond Borders

State of Play: KSrelief medical aid efforts have gone beyond the region’s borders to reach conflict victims and refugees in Europe. Earlier in July, the Center implemented a prosthetics project targeting Ukrainian refugees in the city of Rzeszow, Poland. Over eight days, the project fitted 12 artificial limbs.

The project builds on an earlier one, conducted in April 2026, during which seven volunteers successfully fitted prosthetic limbs for 11 Ukrainian refugees in Rzeszów.

A Comprehensive Approach

What to Watch: In an effort to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people and prevent further amputations, KSrelief’s push is supported by the Masam project for landmine clearance in Yemen, which the Center renewed its contract for one year in June 2026.

The Goal:

• Clear landmines.
• Address direct life threats.
• Enhance security.
• Help Yemenis address the implications of landmine proliferation.
• Develop mechanisms that enable Yemeni people to clear mines.

By the Numbers:

• $52,531 million: Estimated budget.
• 567,182: Total mines cleared.

The Bottom Line: The integrated efforts of KSrelief underscores Saudi Arabia’s commitment to humanitarian responsibility towards the needy and affected people around the world, enabling them to become productive individuals capable of working and leading normal lives.