A Sponsored 5 Mile walk around Bingley, led by the Bingley ‘Walkers are Welcome’ group was held in June 2017 to raise funds for the charity.
Getting people moving
500 miles supports the development and delivery of prosthetic and orthotic services in Malawi and Zambia and a little in Zanzibar. The charity helps people with impaired mobility of all kinds to get moving, as well and as independently as possible, by helping them to access prostheses and orthoses.
Prostheses are devices which replace missing body parts, whilst orthoses are devices, like splints, which support body parts which are weak or don’t function properly.
Giving people back their lives
In Malawi, Zambia and Zanzibar, when people are born with deformities, lose their limbs or the use of their limbs due to accident, disease or poverty, many of them also lose their livelihoods, homes or families – and the most vulnerable even die. The 500 Miles charity is working to give them back their lives by making prosthetic and orthotic devices as accessible and as affordable as we can, not just today but on a long term and sustainable basis.
