March 2026 Quarterly News

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”

-Galatians 6:2

Updates:

The dates are set, and plane tickets have been purchased. Please pray for our 2026 PPIHN team as they prepare for the upcoming trip in April. The team will be busy as always, as the patient schedule is already full before their arrival. Katie plans to visit the Holy Family Center, our partner organization, while in Zambia. Please keep the team and their goals in your thoughts and prayers.

Below are a few photos of Tori treating some of our pediatric patients on the 2025 trip. The team is eager to get back to check on the kiddos!

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A Patient Story: Emmanuel's Journey

We first met Emmanuel in 2013, when he was just six years old. He had undergone enucleation of his right eye and was completely blind in his left. John was able to fit him with a prosthetic eye on the right side, which restored his appearance cosmetically, and, we hoped, helped him move forward with greater confidence.

Emmanuel came to see us with his parents, and during that visit, they asked whether we would consider sponsoring his education at a school for the blind. We agreed, on the condition that they keep us updated on his progress.

Over the years, the reports we received were nothing short of inspiring. Emmanuel consistently excelled academically. He ultimately graduated with honors.

Two years ago, John heard from Emmanuel personally for the first time. He had more than upheld his end of the commitment through his hard work and achievements, and he reached out to ask if we would consider sponsoring his university education. His goal is to attend law school and become an attorney in Zambia.

Emmanuel is exceptionally focused and determined. We truly believe he will accomplish whatever he sets his mind to. We plan to move forward with supporting him in this next chapter, and with the partnership of donors, it will be exciting to see all that he achieves with this opportunity.

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Organization updates:

Thank you to all who donated to our “Giving Tuesday & End-of-Year" campaign in December! We met our fundraising goal for purchasing necessary prosthetic materials for our April 2026 patients. Katie and John are currently working on ordering supplies and packing bags for the trip in April.

Our 2025 summary for supporters:

Read our 2025 annual report

Our Amazon wishlist is up-to-date with needed additional supplies for our April trip.

Amazon Wishlist

Ongoing Donation Needs:

· Shoes (sizes 8-11 men’s and women's)

· Wheelchairs

· Walkers

· Crutches

· Regular Crew Socks

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December 2025 Quarterly News

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

-Isaiah 9:6

Updates:

The team is busy as usual. John Brinkley and Greg Burris made their annual trek to Kansas in November to deposit necessary supplies and donations onto the shipping container. Thank you John and Greg! Photos of supplies below!

Katie Brinkley has been busy orchestrating our new partnership with the Holy Family Center and Fundraising. Read more about this exciting progress in this Newsletter.

PPIHN is thrilled to officially start our partnership with Holy Family Center. Below is a picture of the supplies our Zambian team member, Protashow, delivered to the center in November, so 7 individuals with immediate prosthetic needs can be served! We are so thankful for our faithful donors who make this possible. Thanks to your generosity, two of these individuals will already be walking for the holiday season, with the remaining expected to be seen in the coming weeks.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from the PPIHN team! In this season of giving we are so thankful for you! The gifts of time, prayers, funds, and supplies are so appreciated. Without you this organization could not provide the hope and services we work for.

Caro seeing a pediatric patient in May 2025.

Hannah filling plaster molds during our May 2025 trip.

Before and After photo of an ocular prosthetic patient.

Amazon Wishlist

Giving Tuesday & End-of-Year

Thank you to all who have donated to our “Giving Tuesday & End-of-Year" campaign. PPIHN has a goal to raise $7,900 by the end of the year to purchase necessary materials for our April 2026 patients. There are 21 patients on the list to be seen on the upcoming trip. We are over halfway there!

Prayer requests...

·  Thank you for your prayers for our 2025 trip and the 85 patients we were able to see in May. Please continue to pray for the patients we see in Zambia and the people we work with at New Day Orphanage.

·  We ask that you pray for our organization as we move forward in growth with our new partnership with Holy Family Center.

September 2025 Quarterly News

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven"

- Ecclesiastes 3:1

It’s that time of year! 

Fall is the time of year that Prosthetic Promises founder and board president, John Brinkley, and board member, Greg Burris, make their annual trek to Kansas with a U-Haul to load a shipping container with donations we have received and supplies. The shipping container will make its way to Zambia via the Houston port to South Africa.

If you have items to donate, we would love to receive those by mid-October to be sorted and packed.

· Shoes (sizes 8-11 men's & women's)

· Crutches

· Walkers

· Wheelchairs

· Eyeglasses or readers

· Socks

· Drawstring bags or tote bags

Time to grow.

Prosthetic Promises has made 13 trips to Zambia since 2012. During that time, we have seen the number of patients each trip grow steadily. In May 2025, we were not able to provide a prosthesis for all of the patients who came, due to time and material constraints. We obtained contact information from these people to see them next year, and we now have a list of patients that is too many for our capacity to take care of in April 2026.

  We have been working on establishing a partnership agreement with another charity facility in Zambia where we will provide prosthetic components and a fee per patient, and they can provide prosthetic care for patients who apply for our assistance without charging the patient. The barrier patients have is the cost for care at this facility and sometimes the lack of materials this facility has access to in order to provide a prosthesis for patients, so by establishing this partnership, we can help more patients receive the care they need. As of publishing this newsletter, we are at the final stages of working out this agreement and the logistics of how patients will be referred to their facility.

  This expansion of our ability to help patients is another step in the direction of sustainable prosthetic care in Zambia, which has been a PPIHN focus from the beginning. This expansion also means that we will need to expand our administrative work and fundraising efforts. Katie is now dedicating more time to Prosthetic Promises as a contract Executive Director to expand the organization and work to coordinate patients in Zambia to receive care throughout the year, in addition to Prosthetic Promises’ continued yearly trips.

  We would greatly appreciate your prayers for Prosthetic Promises as we expand with this initiative!

Want to get involved?

 We have numerous ways YOU can be part of the work that Prosthetic Promises does. It takes us all to make a difference!

With our plans for expanding our ability to help patients in need, we will need more prosthetic supplies and funds to make it happen. If you work in the O&P field or have connections with someone who can donate used prostheses, please let us know. Do you have ideas on how we can expand our reach? We’d love to chat and tap into the creative ideas out there on how to better help people in need of prosthetic and ocular prosthetic care in Zambia.

Our immediate ways to help right now are helping us gather donations for the shipping container, and if you are in the Temple, TX area, volunteering to help sort and pack donations with John before November. Let us know if you can help!

A special THANK YOU to Mr. Gary from Clifton, Texas for diligently gathering crutches, walkers, and wheelchairs for months to donate to PPIHN! We are so thankful for his generous donation!

 We also extend a big THANK YOU to Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Annapolis, Maryland for collecting shoes and socks for PPIHN!

Prayer requests...

·  Thank you for your prayers for our 2025 trip and the 85 patients we were able to see in May. Please continue to pray for the patients we see in Zambia and the people we work with at New Day Orphanage.

·  We ask that you pray for our organization as we move forward in growth. We continue to seek guidance and wisdom in the decisions we make for PPIHN.