Nogales nonprofit innovates affordable prosthetics, wheelchairs - AZ Luminaria

Nogales nonprofit innovates affordable prosthetics, wheelchairs - AZ Luminaria

NOGALES, Sonora — Francisco Trujillo ran through the anatomy of a prosthetic using a young man’s discarded leg. A sawed-off plastic jug served as the socket — the part connecting the prosthesis to the body — fastening a partial-metal crutch to a shoe. Trujillo set down the make-shift prosthetic leg along the wall, where other legs were held together with tape, string and wood.  A row of discarded make-shift leg prosthetics at Arizona Sonora Bord…