Rotary club raises money for 14 new limbs (From Enfield Independent)

Rotary club raises money for 14 new limbs

5:11pm Monday 8th February 2010

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A ROTARY Club raised enough money to pay for 14 new limbs for amputees in India.

Through a raffle and bingo night last week, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St George, London Road, Enfield Chase Rotary Club raised £360 for the Rotary Jaipur Limb Project, which helps people who have lost limbs through disease, such as polio, or from landmine accidents.

The legs are developed at the Mahaveer hospital in Jaipur, India and are made from wood and rubber. They are designed to last three or four years if worn without a shoe.

Each limb costs just £25 to make and fit, compared with UK prices of £1,000 to £2,000.

The project operates mostly in India through limb camps serving thousands of people.

Following a massive fundraising effort by Rotary clubs across the UK, Jaipur Limb camps have now been established in Africa and Central America, which provide training, materials and equipment to those fitting the limbs.

Mary Rose International Chairman of the Enfield Chase club, said: “This is our first fundraising effort and though it doesn’t seem much it is 14 limbs. People will shuffle on their hands for days to get to Jaipur and go out walking on these new limbs. If you can’t work over there you can be seen as a burden on society, so this can turn lives around.”

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