Martin West's Fundraising Page

Martin West is raising money for 500 miles

Participants: Richard Dickson

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Swimming Lake Windermere · 20 May 2008

500 miles helps people in Malawi & Zambia who have impaired mobility as a result of amputation, deformity, illness or accident by supplying artificial limbs and splints & braces for all-comers, but especially the poor. Our focus, through training, is development of sustainable in-country services.

Story

Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. If you've got to this page then you probably know the lunacy that I'm involved in. However just in case you don't I'm an amputee and I'm swimming the length of Lake Windermere (10.5 miles). It's a bloody long way (we reckon it will take us 7 - 8 hours) and the water will be freezing. So please give generously to make the whole thing a little less painful.

The charity I'm doing this for is 500 miles who raise money for amputees in deprived parts of the world where there basically isn't any provision of prosthetic services. So by giving you will be helping people around the world to walk. Having been there myself I can tell you that regaining the ability to walk is an amazing thing.

So please sponsor me now!

Donation summary

Total
£15,170.00
+ £1,762.82 Gift Aid
Online
£9,150.00
Offline
£6,020.00

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