To support amputees and other disabled people in areas of desperate need. Our particular focus is on the development and delivery of prosthetic and
orthotic services and other mobility/function promoting services such as orthopaedic and plastic surgery. Our work may involve funding the education and
training of prosthetists, components for prosthetic limbs, surgical operations and the building of prosthetic centres.
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 poverty.
To them loss of a limb means loss of livelihood, home and family
– even death.
A little shared knowledge, simple operations and even the most basic prosthetic
devices would improve the quality of the lives of many people
by giving them an opportunity to overcome their disability.
The Proclaimers' famous lyrics "I would walk 500 miles" are the inspiration for the name - and the aspirational goal for the amputees
500 miles will help.
