The Gwennili Trust – Don’t Let a Disability Stop You
I’ve received an e-mail from David Harris about this excellent venture. Please check it out their Website for yourself.
I am very pleased to tell you that we have a new website www.gwennili.org.uk As well as telling you about the Trust the site features accounts of previous cruises and a [...]
Team Anglia GB, The East Anglian Regional Amputee Football Squad, has an excellent new Website.
If you were born without a limb or have suffered an Amputation or loss of use of a limb you are able to join the Region’s Elite Squad.
Compete in the Amputee National Football League. Challenge for Honours and Trophies. Meet new [...]
I’ve had a message from Anna Hedenstrom who has just moved to Sweden and has had to put her much loved adapted car up for sale.
Please click on the link beneath the photographs to see a downloadable description of the car and, if you might be interested, you can then contact Anna in Sweden at [...]
Had he lived, the eponymous inspiration of the Douglas Bader Foundation, would have been 100 today. We acknowledge his Centenary Year and feel sure that he would be proud of the new initiatives and Events that the Foundation has in place to honour it. BADER BRAVES, launched on the 10th February, is now up and [...]
A UNIQUE war hero who battled to serve his country despite losing both his legs is celebrated in an exhibition opening in Colindale today.
The RAF Museum’s Sir Douglas Bader Anniversary Exhibition, including medals, letters and log-books, marks 100 years since the famous Wing Commander’s birth and the start of his charity’s latest campaign to help [...]
By Beverly Perna
Ipswich Chronicle
Posted Feb 16, 2010 @ 06:32 PM
Ipswich —
Still emotionally raw after nearly a two-week tour of duty in earthquake-wracked Haiti, Carlos Heymann of Peatfield Street said he would do it again.
“Absolutely, absolutely!” he said without hesitation, even as he recalled the horrific conditions that met him in Haiti.
“There is no such thing [...]
You can see footage of the successful launch of the Douglas Bader Foundation’s exciting new venture, BADER BRAVES, by clicking on the link below.
Once on the British Forces News Website, scroll down to the bottom to see the Douglas Bader clip.
Please click HERE for the link.
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2010 is the Centenary Year of the birth of Sir Douglas Bader and a very important year for the Douglas Bader Foundation…
Today we are very proud to be able to announce our brand new initiative:
BADER BRAVES
Was created as a joint acknowledgement of SIR DOUGLAS BADER’s honourary Chieftainship of a Canadian Indian Tribe and [...]
Published Date: 09 February 2010
A COMPUTER game is helping amputees to programme their recovery.
Two Nintendo Wii Fits have been donated to the amputee rehabilitation physiotherapy service at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, by the family of Garry Fraser who was killed in a road accident last year.
Mr Fraser was a keen supporter of the service and his [...]
Interventional Cardiologists at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington Treat Patient Suffering from Peripheral Arterial Disease with Innovative, Minimally Invasive Device
Flemington, NJ—Interventional Cardiologists at Hunterdon Medical Center are now treating patients using a newly FDA cleared device that clears away and removes potentially deadly artery clogging plaque in leg arteries for those suffering from peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a chronic condition that affects nearly 12 million Americans. [...]
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19 year old Evan Reynolds lost his left hand in a road traffic accident in 2006 when his arm became trapped between the side of a car and a gatepost. LEIGH DAY & CO. solicitors were able to secure Evan substantial damages which will cover the future costs of his Touch Bionics i-LIMB™ prosthetic which [...]
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