Charlotte Cleverley Bisman
Current Mission: All Terrain Track Chair to get on the beach with her friends in summer. Similar to photo.
Auckland
Charlotte was born 24th November 2003.
At 6 months old she was hit by the killer virus meningitis enduring 22 operations to date.
She had all four limbs amputated.
Charlotte is New Zealand's first and youngest quadruple amputee.
In Charlotte's 13th year we are currently fund raising for an all terrain track chair that will allow her to get on the beach with her friends in summer.
Surrounded by beautiful beaches she can't access in a regular chair, Charlotte is missing the Kiwi lifestyle her friends take for granted.
Charlotte has a great attitude to life. Her only limitation is the extraordinary costs of being able to realise her potential and keep up with her able-bodied friends.
To give you some idea of what your donation will be helping Charlotte with, the video link is to an all terrain track chair similar to what she will need.
Any donation, no matter how small, will give Charlotte the opportunity to fulfill her dream of being able to enjoy a day at the beach with friends and family like other Kiwi kids.
More about us
The funds for the Charlotte Lucy Trust provides a "Can Do" attitude where we can introduce mobility that allows Charlotte free movement and access that is dignified into her future movements in life.
Latest update
Please Help me get to the beach 22 November 2016
I have a love for swimming, surfing, and diving it has become increasing difficult since my last growing spurt and I am now 13years. I am wanting to be independent and making my own way on to the beach to be with family and friends.
to be honest being lifted by 2 caregivers from my chair as it reaches the sand and having to bottom shuffle from this point through the hot sand and down to the water is horrible. the sand is extremely hot and feels like sand paper let alone the cuts and tears my skin receives from the shells and stones.
Swimming is my running replacement, and physical fitness is my cardio which I need to be very fit to handle wearing my prosthetic legs.
I also suffer from the heat as I have lost parts of all 4 of my limbs, I have no hands and feet to sweat from which complicates wearing of big, heavy plastic and metal prosthetic legs (which cant be worn on sand) and with the energy it takes to move in them, this is complicated by my curved spine and the summer heat. It is important that I can get to the beach to cool off. and to be able to enter any beach with its uneven terrain on Waiheke Island where my family have lived for over 30yrs.
Waiheke being an island is surrounded by different terrains and bank mediums that surround all our beach's.
I love the free-ness, weightlessness I feel when I am in the water, this is one of the most beautiful feelings out there.
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