THE AIM
To support amputees by funding initiatives which will deliver prosthetic services and related care in areas of desperate need. This may involve funding the education and training of prosthetists, components for prosthetic limbs or the building of prosthetic centres.
GIVING PEOPLE BACK THEIR LIVES
In the UK, the NHS provides prosthetic limbs to all amputees able to use them so they can get on with their lives. In many parts of the world thousands of men, women and children lose arms and legs each year due to war, landmines, disease and povert y. To them loss of a limb means loss of livelihood, home and family – even death.
A little shared knowl edge and even the most basic, cheap prosthetic devices would improve the quality of the lives of many people by giving them an opportuni ty to overcome their disability.