The results of these tests were extremely positive and indicated that the team was ready for the next important step––validating their design in the harsh conditions of the developing world. In the summer of 2005, the first LEGS prosthetic prototypes were manufactured and tested at CURE International’s Bethany Crippled Children’s Center in Kijabe, Kenya. Gonzalez and four senior engineering students spent three weeks providing about a dozen disabled Kenyans, mostly children, with prosthetic legs. They also provided the raw materials to produce additional legs. In many poor developing countries, the standard lower limb prosthetic is a “peg leg” that requires the amputee to swing the leg around from the hip, causing abnormal gait and strained muscular development that leads to long term orthopedic problems and pain. “Our prosthetic knee design leg is far more functional because it simulates natural movement, rotating freely during the leg swing and then automatically locking when they put weight on it,” says Dr. Gonzalez. “The knee is also designed to meet international performance standards as set forth by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).” Currently, LEGS technology is present in Bangladesh, Kenya, Senegal, and Sierra Leone in over a dozen local clinics within these countries. Each of these countries has international NGO partners who host LEGS when they are on the ground. Currently, LEGS does not fit patients; rather it "teaches" local clinicians how to manufacture the LEGS M1 knee using locally obtainable materials. LEGS evaluates sites that can best benefit from its technology, and then holds Demonstration Clinics and Technology Transfer Workshops to teach the manufacturing and technology of the LEGS knee most effectively. In the African Great Lakes, the LEGS team has had a relationship with AIC-Cure International in Kijabe, Kenya for five years. AIC-Cure International Children’s Hospital fits both children and adults in need of above-knee prosthetic devices, and has done so since 1998. The LEGS team has fitted dozens of patients at AIC-Cure with the LEGS knee, and has begun to teach local clinicians how to manufacture the LEGS knee as the technology has improved. During the time spent in Kenya this past summer, the team held a Technology Demonstration. This is different from a workshop in that the team only presented the LEGS technology package, as the local clinics did not have a chance to produce their own knees.