The Centre for Handicapped has been working towards the rehabilitation of people with disabilities since 1971, under different names like "Kandy Orthopedic Centre" and "Colombo Friend In Need Society Kandy Branch". Finally it got its own identity as "Centre For Handicapped" in 2001 and started working independently. Currently the Centre receives technical and financial support from Motivation through its Disability Support Programme funded by USAID for a limited period.
To date nearly 7,500 amputees from various parts of the country and from different walks of life have benefited through CFH's limb programme. There has been a gradual increase in quantity as well as quality in many aspects like fabrication of limb, technology used, organizational management, income generation etc. From the traditional Aluminum Jaipur type limb the Centre graduated to HDPE exoskeleton and composite endoskeletal limbs. Technicians have been sent to India for a five-month training programme to learn the fabrication of HDPE Exoskeletal limbs. A team of expatriate Prosthetic and Orthotic professionals from India assist in the fabrication of Endoskeletal limbs.