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100 Miles and 23000 Feet for Fundación Prótesis Para la Vida

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A little over a month from now, I'll be joining 300 souls at the start line of the " Grindstone 100 . " Doing it once back in 2012 was slightly daring, well out of my comfort zone.   A second time is merely daft. Two years ago, many of you helped to redeem this ill-advised undertaking by generously pledging a donation to  Fundación Prótesis Para la Vida .   I am asking for your help again this year. Online pledge form here The Cause for which I'm running I consider mobility as more than a human need--it is, or ought to be, a right.  Yet poverty prevents many people from obtaining the prosthetics they need.  One of the organizations founded to help those who could not otherwise afford mobility is Fundación Prótesis Para la Vida (Prosthetics for Life), based in Ecuador.  Some of their patients (not the very young ones pictured here, obviously) have waited decades for a prosthetic limb. Prótesis para la Vida is a very small organization, with bare-bones admin