According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), there were about 1.4 million Filipinos who belonged to the persons-with-disability (PWD) sector in 2012. Among them comes a young Filipino inventor, who used his disability to create an instrument that can make the life of his fellow PWDs more convenient.

James Camacho, inventor and user of the foldable crutch system or adaptive crutch as he calls it, is a polio survivor who has been dependent on mobility assistive devices all his life.

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