Occasionally our leg donors ask if we can tell them something about the person their prosthetic leg has gone to. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible for all sorts of reasons – not least because it’s impossible to keep track of one particular leg amongst the hundreds we send to different hospitals and mobility clinics in Africa. But every now and then an amputee will contact us to thank the donor for giving them their life back. So for all those donors who wonder what happened to their leg once they have sent it off into an unknown future, please meet Daniel, a man who has experienced the typical problems an amputee in Africa must face where there is no NHS and the cost of a prosthetic is beyond the means of most people.

Daniel is a self-employed plumber and electrician and also a preacher. He loves sport and was a good runner but he couldn’t do any of these activities when his leg was amputated early in 2021 following a traffic accident. He was riding his motorbike when a child started to cross the road in front of him. Somehow he was able to avoid him and also prevent a following car from hitting the child but the result for Daniel was the loss of his right leg. Sadly, his wife couldn’t cope with the amputation and she left the family home so that Daniel now had the added responsibility of two primary school children to look after as a single parent. 

With no income and therefore no means to buy a prosthetic leg, he approached Legs4Africa to see if we could help. Since being put in touch with one of our partners in Benin, Daniel has been fitted for a new leg and with support and lots of exercising he is back at work and has picked up his preaching for the Church. His worries about paying for his children’s school fees have gone and the children are excited that they can now visit their large extended family again and have holidays with them. 

Although he can’t run yet Daniel says that after all his training he is able to do a good brisk walk!