Swavesey boy, 7, to get Hero Arm after Egham benefactor steps in

A seven-year-old lad calved without a close manus is to get a "robotic arm" aft a benefactor stepped successful and offered to wage the afloat £13,000 for it.

Louie Morgan-Kemp, from Cambridgeshire, had been fundraising to get himself the prosthetic, called the Hero Arm.

Billy Nixon, 73, from Surrey, said helium was "over the moon" to beryllium capable to assistance aft speechmaking astir the fundraiser successful the news.

Louie's mum Hannah Morgan said her lad was "so excited".

The 3D-printed prosthetic limb is built by Open Bionics.

Louie, from Swavesey, antecedently said it would alteration him to "do worldly different children tin do" and would springiness him "more confidence".

Mr Dixon said helium made interaction with Ms Morgan via Facebook aft speechmaking an article.

The gramps from Egham, who describes himself arsenic a "general dealer" who buys and sells trucks and vans, said: "I conscionable said 'listen, don't interest astir it, you conscionable spell and get his arm, I'll wage for it'.

"I couldn't deliberation not to bash it, it's conscionable successful my quality doing things similar that."

He said that 5 years ago, successful the aforesaid year, helium mislaid a sister, a member and a son.

"I conscionable thought the world's a poxy place. If I support getting each the atrocious things wherefore can't I bash thing bully for idiosyncratic else?" helium asked.

Ms Morgan, 32, said it was "mental to deliberation idiosyncratic paid that magnitude of wealth that we've ne'er met before".

She said Louie was "amazed" aft seeing the Hero Arm astatine a roadshow past month.

He has talked astir however bully it would beryllium to beryllium capable to determination his ain portion without spilling it, and to transportation objects successful 2 hands and not person to equilibrium items against his chest, helium said.

Ms Morgan, who is simply a teaching assistant, said Louie was going for a fitting for the Hero Arm successful aboriginal July, and had been told it volition instrumentality astir 15 moving days to manufacture.

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