About AASRA

About AASRA

Way back in April of 1977, the original founders of our Association, felt a need to bind amputees together to help one another.
Their mission was outlined when we received our Society Act incorporation:

"To bind together in a spirit of a fraternity, all persons who are without a limb (s), or part thereof, from any cause"

They further went on to outline such things as:

• Providing for the recreation of members

• Affording members the opportunity for friendly and social activities

• Encouraging and promoting amateur games and exercises 

• Providing a meeting place (if possible)

• Carrying on discussions of general interest to amputees 

• Establishing a reading library

However, like all things, times have changed, and so has the mandate of our Association over the past number of years.

Our Association is alive and well.  We continue to seek out and get new members interested in joining together in a spirit of fraternity and helping one another. Visits and phone calls to new amputees, continues to increase as an awareness of our association is growing in all of the hospitals, physiotherapy departments and doctor's offices. Interest in some amputee sports has declined - in others (such as golf) it continues to grow daily.

If you know of one other amputee, who is not already a member of our Association, why not speak to them and encourage them to join us? Their input, their ideas, their goals and their support is very welcome. They may not feel that they need support, but maybe they can BE support for someone else

Interested in joining AASRA? Contact Us

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Association Philosophy

"Our Association believes that the quality of life for all amputees, is enhanced through participation and interaction with other amputees, which improves one's social, emotional and physical well being.  We provide moral support to new and existing amputees, both young and old alike".

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Mission Statement

• To support and provide opportunity for amputees in recreation and sporting activities, in both disabled and able bodied events.

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Objectives of the Association

• To further the rehabilitation of amputees by organizing and encouraging personal involvement in social and recreational activities.
  
• To provide personal support to amputees and their families in the community.
  
• To assist in prosthetic research for the purpose of obtaining the best device (s) available for amputees by encouraging amputees to participate in prosthetic's training courses and research projects of all types.
  
• To keep in touch with, and to be informed on, research projects in order to promulgate the latest research developments to all amputees.
  
• To raise funds necessary to promote the aims and objectives of the association.
• To provide a meeting place for the consideration and discussion of questions affecting the interests of the amputee community.
• To provide all necessary equipment and furniture for carrying on it's various objects.

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