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We are a Scottish charity founded in 2007 to help people with mobility difficulties and to give them a chance to live independent lives. As a quadruple amputee myself, I know how important that independence is.
They teamed up to launch 500 miles, an organisation dedicated to supporting amputees by funding initiatives which deliver prosthetic services and related care in areas of desperate need.
OLIVIA GILES was working as a lawyer in 2002 when she caught meningococcal septicaemia and had to have her hands and feet amputated to save her life. In 2007 she founded the charity 500 miles, which supplies prosthetic limbs to developing countries. I began to feel ill one afternoon at work.
13 lut 2019 · Praise Kaponda was offered a scholarship from 500 miles to study orthopaedic technology. Olivia Giles, founder of 500 miles, tells us all about the charity’s important work in Africa – and the value of being able to put one foot in front of the other.
27 cze 2021 · Thirteen years ago, 500 Miles was a novice in international development, but we were clear about one thing. While we were determined to help establish a professional prosthetic and orthotic...
8 wrz 2014 · Charity 500 miles are urging Scots to sit down to dinner with the rest of the world – so amputees can stand up and walk tall. Charity founder Olivia Giles, a quadruple amputee, is today...
“Olivia Giles OBE is truly an inspiration and her story humbling. The work she does at her charity, 500 miles, is life changing for 1,000s of people in Malawi and Zambia and I would not...
