This Seattle 'auntie' went to Gaza to make prosthetics for children. After being trapped in the...

Ramona Okumura, 71, has spent three decades building prosthetic limbs for children and adults, including 25 years teaching others her craft while a lecturer at the University of Washington. In retirement, she continued her work, periodically travelling to Gaza and volunteering with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to help build prosthetic limbs for Palestinian children.

“It’s the kind of craft that is a science and an art,” explained her niece, Erika Okumura of Federal Way. “You have to see the kid in front of you to be able to make the limb.”