Jaipur Foot Donations

Enormous thanks to all that who contributed to the Jaipur Foot collections in November. In December Julie and Mick visited the Jaipur Foot Foundation in Jaipur and donated £1300 on your behalf. That's roughly 64 people who arrived on crutches and walked away on an artificial limb as a direct result of your donations.

Here are a few of them:

Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samitt Limb Centre, SMS Hospital, Jaipur, India is a non-governmental, voluntary, non-religious, non-sectarian, non-political society for helping the handicapped, particularly the resourceless. It was set up by Mr. D R Mehta in 1975 as a long term human welfare project. Above is the waiting room where people wait for a new limb. Mr. Mehta told us that one of the men sitting here (not in view) had only 2 Rupees (3 pence) in his pocket but had somehow travelled to Jaipur along with his family having heard about Jaipur Foot. He got a new leg that day and left the next to find work again.

Julie with a finished foot section.

Mick with Mr Mehta and the inventor of Japiur Foot (left).

The Jaipur Foot is an extraordinary artificial limb that can be made for around £20 and allows those who wear it to run, ride a bicycle and climb trees. After fitment, most patients can go back to work in the fields, factories, shops and offices they occupied before their accident (most are due to road accidents and contracted diseases).

The limbs are constructed on site within a couple of hours of first fitting, while we were there, twenty or so limbs were being made.

Here are some of the contraptions people walked in on:

And here's us presenting the cheque on your behalf:

Thanks again for your donation, for each twenty pounds you donated, someone got a new leg. Not bad eh? All this made us feel pretty good too.

For further info or to donate directly go to www.jaipurfoot.org

Thanks again

Mick & Julie Sheridan