By Neil Bowdler Health reporter, BBC News Mahran Agil, 30, used to work in a perfume shop. In his spare time, he loved buying, breeding and selling pigeons. Then the uprising against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi began and he was catapulted into a bloody civil war. “Gaddafi was killing the people of my country. I had [...]
by Michael Smith WHEN Private Matt Woollard stepped on a Taliban landmine in Afghanistan, his life was left hanging by a thread. His right foot was blown off, chunks of muscle were stripped from his forearms and his heart stopped three times after he was airlifted to a field hospital. Yet two years later, Woollard, [...]
We wish Matt the best of luck with his fund-raising and his operation. A FOOTBALL-MAD student who faces having his right leg amputated organised a tournament to raise money for his treatment. Matt Woollias, 20, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma earlier this year, a type of bone cancer which affects just four in one million [...]
By KAREN ZRAICK Published: July 27, 2009 A police officer whose left leg had to be amputated after he was struck by a car while on duty in Brooklyn two weeks ago left the hospital on Monday afternoon, saying more with a gesture than he did with words. Instead of being pushed out of Kings [...]
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
www.thebadercup.co.uk
Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.
