Men in Sheds get People Moving Again
News provided by Legs4Africa on Monday 5th Nov 2018
In the first 6 months of working together we have dismantled about 300 legs – we think Legs4Africa is having a job to keep up with us!
| Retirement, loss
of a partner or long
term sickness can often
conspire to isolate men
at different stages of
their lives. Some men
retreat to their shed
which often reinforces
the situation but Men in
Sheds is better than a
shed at the bottom of
the garden. It’s a place
to meet like minded
gentlemen for company
whilst at the same time
using skills learned
over a lifetime or to
learn new skills to do
something worthwhile for
the community. The
by-product of this is
that men find they have
a new purpose in life
resulting in a new found
confidence and
satisfaction as well as
forming friendships
which go beyond the
Shed. |
| Men in Sheds in
Warmley on the outskirts
of Bristol have been
lending their expertise
to help Legs4Africa,a
Bristol based charity
that provides physical
rehabilitation and
emotional support to
African amputees by
recycling redundant or
outgrown prosthetic legs
donated from UK
hospitals and
individuals. |
| Mervyn Bishop who runs the Warmley Men in Sheds says: ‘We use the same workshop as the Bristol group of the charity Tools for Self Reliance who refurbish tools and sewing machines so that Africans can earn their own living. So when Legs4Africa asked if we could dismantle legs to go to Africa, we were immediately sympathetic to what Legs4Africa were doing. |
| In the first 6 months of working together we have dismantled about 300 legs – we think Legs4Africa is having a job to keep up with us!’ - Mervyn Bishop |
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For more information please visit: www.legs4africa.org
www.facebook.com/legs4africa
www.twitter.com/legs4africa
For photos please visit Dropbox:
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