Amanda Jones suffers from the autoimmune disease and had been stuck in bed for two years.
Amanda has been given a new lease of life. (Image: ERGC)
A Scots woman who had been bed bound with multiple sclerosis (MS) for over two years is finally mobile again thanks to a local charity project, in what organisers described as a “joy to behold”.
Amanda Jones, 50, had been confined to her bed for more than two years due to the advanced autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, reports Glasgow Live.
However, she has finally received a specialised recliner chair on wheels that has allowed her to regain some independence, after charity ERGoodCauses (ERGC) found a way to raise the £4,100 needed for the equipment.
The NHS and councils are unable able to provide the money required for this kind of equipment to many of those who need it, due to ongoing financial struggles to provide for the increasing aging population.
No one single charity was able to donate the £4,100 required for Amanda’s life-changing chair.
But a new project from ERGC, named the Bite Size Fundraising Programme (BSFP), allowed donations from different sources to put their money together in a collective meaning the chair could be purchased in one payment from the collection.
Amanda was stuck in bed for two years. (Image: ERGC)
ERGC founder Russell Macmillan said: “We are coming across more and more cases where the statutory sector just doesn’t have enough money to provide these types of things for individuals.
“To resolve what seemed like a large financial black hole, we launched what we call our Bite Size Fundraising Programme.
“Four thousand and one hundred pounds was too much to ask an individual charity for, however if the money was collected in on a bite size basis, the cost to any one charity was manageable.”
The total required for Amanda’s chair came from combining a £500 contribution from the family and £3,600 from the ERGC and three of their other charity partners.
Russell added: “The outcome of this approach as can be seen in the picture where Amanda is now mobile and not bed-bound is just a joy to behold.
“I would like to thank the many different people involved in making Amanda feel loved as a neighbour and regaining at least some independence.”
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