Summer Appeal For Oliver
Last year, 19 year old Oliver was just four weeks away from sitting his A Level exams when he was hit by a car. He was paralysed from the chest down.
Today this incredibly motivated young man is working hard to adjust to life, but his heavy NHS-issue manual wheelchair is frustrating his efforts at every turn. Oliver's current manual wheelchair - the generic sort you see used by hospital patients - is wholly inappropriate for such an active, driven young man. It makes his life a practical nightmare and interrupts his studies. Because he cannot stand up in his manual wheelchair, he has no choice but to return home in-between lessons to use a standing frame for his essential physiotherapy.
The accident took place just outside the college gates, when a fellow student lost control of his car and careered into him. Tragically, the impact broke Oliver's neck and seriously damaged his spinal cord. After seven months of surgery and intense physiotherapy, Oliver regained use of his shoulders, arms and hands - a magnificent achievement I'm sure you'll agree. Now, he wants to put the same effort and determination into completing his A Levels and joining his friends at University.
What Oliver needs is a wheelchair that raises him to a standing position so he can exercise wherever he happens to be. He needs a wheelchair with an electric motor to increase his mobility and save the strength in his arms for writing essays and playing sport. Most of all, Oliver needs to feel that the direction his life takes in the future is in his own hands.
Donate today and help Action For Kids buy the £7,108 light-weight, powered wheelchair he needs to perform crucial physiotherapy exercises away from home twice a day. Oliver was an active, busy student, heading for a place at University. With your urgent support he can have a great future ahead of him again.
