Help Sophia get her wheels

I am running the Boston marathon in April, I think it might be hard... so I want to use as an opportunity to do something for someone else. Because adaptive technology has changed my life, I am creating this give a little page to raise money to buy an adaptive trike from for a little girl called Sophia.

Sophia has infantile spasms (also called west syndrome), she is 5 and the spasms have meant that she hasn't developed as fast as most children. It's only in the last year or so she has learned to walk. She loves to go outside and to the park, but her muscles are really weak so she can't walk very far. The trike will mean that Sophia and her family (Mum, Clare, Dad, Ari and her sister Hannah who is 9) can go cycling together. The trike will have a proper seat with a back, a little seat belt and Sophia's feet can be clipped onto the pedals, so her legs can move and she gets exercise. It will have a push handle so when she needs it, she can use parent power.

The trike will make a huge difference and her family, they will be able to go out as a family, instead of one parent and one child. It will give Sophia a chance to build up the muscles in her legs, which will help her walking.

I think that she will love the trike, she doesn't speak yet, but you know when she is excited.

I would really appreciate it if you could help make the trike possible, I think that the trike will make a huge difference to Sophia's family and to Sophia's future.