The following brings you up to the minute on the work being done by Winchester Rotary in support of our Prosthetic limb project. RCGI is truly grateful to Winchester Rotary for their support once again, last time it was body supports for persons with motor function issues and a wheel chair for Kevin Jn. Baptiste; this time it is with shipping prosthetic limbs for use in our support for the Association of Persons with Disabilities.
Thank you Winchester Rotary.
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Richard Spalding - President Nominee, Winchester Rotary
Dear All,
Further to a multitude of individual emails and phone calls, here is the latest detailed plan for delivery of the prosthetic limbs from UK to St Lucia:
- 20 February: Training for Prosthetic Technicians completed in St Lucia, and new workshop created thereafter
- 28 February: Collection finalised of assortment (30-40 sets) of prosthetic legs, including feet, tubes, socket adapters, knee joints - huge thanks to Alasdair Gilbertson
- 1 March: Alasdair handed prostheses to Richard Spalding
- 4 March: Richard delivers prostheses to TFSR (in Totton, Southampton)
- 4-13 March: TFSR build palletised wooden packing crate (anticipated to be approx 1m3, 90Kg) - thanks to Stuart Bailey
- 14-19 March: Hampshire Freight Services collect and drive crate from TFSR to Geest Line (Dover) - thanks to Jim Martuccio
- 20 March: Closing date for crate to arrive at Geestline (The Geest Line, C/o George Hammond, Hammond House, Limekiln Street, Dover, CT17 9EF)
- 24 March: Geest Line embark crate in Atlantic Klipper and set sail - thanks to Captain Peter Dixon, Jeremy Bristow, Sandy Wherrett, Stella Childs
- 4 April: Crate arrives in St Lucia (Ms. Lenita Joseph, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Department of Equity, Social Justice, Empowerment and Human Services, 4th Floor Greaham Louisy Building, Waterfront, Castries, SAINT LUCIA, (telephone number +1-758-719-2201)
For info, attached (at bottom) is a photo of the car load of prostheses Alasdair (on the right) handed over to me (today, 1 March); they’re on their way!
With grateful thanks to all; what a collaborative team effort!
Regards,
Richard