OPAF Announcesw Partnership with WeMedia

[Wayne Renardson]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2, 2002

Contact: Tamara Bibby
(571) 431-0831

Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund establishes partnership with 
WeMedia incorporated   

Alexandria, Virginia -The Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund (OPAF) 
announces a strategic partnership with New York-based WeMedia 
Incorporated to increase OPAF's exposure through media outlets and provide 
OPAF partners with greater access to jobs, information, and special products 
and services. This partnership highlights OPAF's efforts, talents, and effective 
representation of the O&P community and WeMedia's ability to reach 
thousands of media and non-media outlets nationwide.  

WeMedia is the leading media company covering issues important to the 
millions of people with disabilities interested in a quality life without 
compromise.  Founders, Jerome Belson and Cary Fields, have been longtime 
disability awareness advocates and founded the company on the basic principle 
of advancing education, mobility, and the degree of access available to people 
living with disabling conditions.  Through its web site-www.wemedia.com-and 
other media outlets, WeMedia provides need-to-have information; products; 
and resources to people with disabilities, their families and friends from top 
companies and organizations in the world.  

The Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund is nonprofit organization, a 
501(c)(3) public charity, established in 1995 by the Orthotic and Prosthetic 
National Office. Dedicated initially to providing financial and in-kind support 
to the 1996 Paralympics, the Fund now generates its own initiatives through 
partnerships with individuals, organizations and institutions engaged in raising 
public awareness of disability and improving the quality of rehabilitation 
medicine, science and technology.  

The Fund aims primarily to enable individuals with physical disabilities-
especially those served by members of the orthotics and prosthetics 
community-to enjoy the rewards of personal achievement, physical fitness, and 
social interaction.  

For more information about the Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund, Inc., 
please visit www.opfund.org or contact Tamara Bibby, OPAF Program 
Coordinator, at 571.431.0831 or tnb at opfund.org.  

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