DS Smith teams up with charity to support Legs 4 Africa mission

DS Smith has teamed up with charity Legs 4 Africa to support the efforts to send 1,000 much-needed prosthetic limbs to Africa.

In partnership with the Leicester-based charity and other local businesses, the DS Smith team provided large, rigid cardboard boxes to ensure the safe travel of the cargo.

While thousands of prosthetic limbs are disposed of every year in the UK, African hospitals are in desperate need of them and each one can make a life changing difference.

The special consignment has been sent to The Gambia and Senegal where mobility units have patients who have lost limbs due to diabetes, road accidents and war. Without this type of support, patients would have to pay well over their national average annual salary for a prosthetic leg.

Adam Anderson, Managing Director of DS Smith’s Heavy Duty business in the UK said: “Legs 4 Africa is a charity that is doing inspiring things. The improved quality of life these prosthetic limbs bring is undeniable and it’s amazing that these products would otherwise go to waste. 

“DS Smith feels privileged to support the work Legs 4 Africa is doing”

Legs 4 Africa expects to collect about 2,000 legs this year.