Legs4Africa is committed to improving the mobility and independence of amputees in sub-Saharan Africa through provision of rehabilitation services and access to prosthetic legs.

In the UK and other European countries prosthetics cannot be re-used or recycled. So, every year thousands of these expensive and life-changing pieces of equipment end up in landfill. By encouraging individuals, hospitals and other establishments to donate prosthetics to us rather than throw them in a pit we enable them to have another lease of life in Africa by giving an amputee the ultimate leg-up.

Since we started in 2013 we have shipped enough components to build or repair over 7,000 legs for amputees living in Africa. See the map of where we are recycling legs and supporting limb centres here.

By 2025, we aim to be working even more limb fitting centres in Europe, Canada and Australia to recycle returned prosthetic legs. In Africa, we aim to have set up many more amputee community groups in the countries that we are already shipping components to.