Davpack Begins its Challenge to Walk 125 Miles for Legs4Africa

The employees of Davpack have volunteered to walk the distance from its base in Derby to the charity’s location in Bristol in order to raise money for the Leg Up campaign.

United Kingdom, November 1, 2021: Davpack, a leading mail order packaging supplies company, recently launched its ‘Davpack Walks to Legs4Africa’ fundraiser to help collect donations for a Bristol-based charity supporting people with limb differences in sub-Saharan Africa. This challenge set by the staff at Davpack will involve a collection of individuals walking a collaborative 125 miles to encourage donations from family, friends and generous strangers, in support of the Legs4Africa (L4A) Leg Up campaign. Leg Up is a match-funded campaign, launched by L4A in August. Through Leg Up the charity hopes to raise a total of £100,000 to allow them to expand their services and ensure amputees in The Gambia have everything they need in order to work through the trauma of limb loss.

Legs4Africa is an incredible charity that raises awareness of the issues surrounding the disparity across the World regarding who has access to prosthetic legs and rehabilitation services. L4A aims to create a solution to this imbalance by donating prosthetic legs that would otherwise end up in landfills, and by improving mental and physical services for amputees. The impact of limb loss can be devastating, and it affects countless people across Africa. There are estimated to be 1.8 million amputees on the continent in need of a prosthetic leg. In less fortunate countries you are not entitled to prosthetics, and many individuals suffer from mental health issues as a result of their amputation. Due to the stigma attached to disability, many people also refuse the surgery - putting their lives at serious risk. The organisation state that they want to help all amputees ‘have access to services that allow them to feel mobile, independent, supported in the community, and have opportunities for work, education and recreation’. Through their partnership with Davpack they are able to make huge progress towards this ultimate goal.

Evie Dickinson, the Fundraising and Communications Manager for Legs4Africa expressed: “Davpack has been incredible to us. It’s so refreshing to be working with a company that is so human and that literally can’t do enough to support the cause. You are constantly helping to shine a light on limb loss and the challenges faced by amputees in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Within one major Gambian hospital alone, there is an amputation every 3.5 days. Most of the individuals suffering from limb loss will not have access to the support needed to deal with the trauma of amputation. L4A estimate that in The Gambia there are 4,500 people in need of a prosthetic leg and 80% of amputees will not receive the physical or emotional support that they require. Legs4Africa is determined to change this and play a huge role in the lessening of stigmas and improvement of equality across sub-Saharan Africa.

Davpack is appreciative of all that the charity does for amputees and are thankful to those who have already donated to the cause. They are proud to assist in the rebalance of access to prosthetic legs and rehabilitation services while adding to efforts to reduce social stigma and extreme poverty caused by amputations.

Among other key insights:

- Davpack Walks to Legs4Africa was inspired by the charity’s launch of their own ‘Leg Up’ campaign in an effort to raise £100,000
- All donations made directly to L4F are doubled by an anonymous friend of the organisation
- To support Davpack’s huge walk visit our GoFundMe link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/davpack-walks-to-legs4africa
or directly donate to L4F here: https://www.legs4africa.org/legup/

‘We want to spread the word and reach as many people as possible to help’ - Davpack

Davpack, Charlton House, Riverside Park, East Service Road, Raynesway, Derby, England DE21 7BF

Davpack is a leading UK mail order packaging supplies company, and part of the global business equipment group, TAKKT.

Founded by Henry Davenport in 1968, as Davenport Paper Company Ltd, the company became known as Davenport Packaging, which then became shortened to Davpack as the company pioneered online packing materials in the late 1990s. Davpack quickly became a key supplier of cardboard boxes, polythene, postal and retail packaging materials, and expanded rapidly under the management of Terry, Carole and Paul Davenport.

In early 2012 Davpack joined forces with Ratioform and then formed the Packaging Solutions Division of TAKKT, which is the second biggest direct supplier of packaging in Europe, with an impressive range of over 5,600 stock items and over 1 million sq ft of warehousing. Barney Byfield joined as managing director, with Paul Davenport continuing the family tradition as sales director. Stock ranges have been expanded even more, along with further investment in custom solutions and dedicated call-off warehousing for custom boxes, printed corrugated cartons and bespoke packaging.

As Davpack continued to grow within the TAKKT group, in 2020 Davpack, along with other TAKKT business units, joined in collaboration to create the Newport Takkt Family. The Newport group is a family of web-focused, European B2B ecommerce businesses that offers a wide range of workplace and business equipment and solutions. Read more on our work with The Newport TAKKT Family, here!

Today Davpack continues to expand, attracting thousands of new customers every year with a winning formula of superior choice, excellent value and unbeatable speed of supply at the heart of its philosophy. Davpack have opened across Europe and continue to grow globally providing quality packaging supplies to markets across Sweden, Germany and Austria.

Best choice, value and speed of delivery is why our customers rate Davpack as ‘Excellent’ for UK packaging supplies & materials!

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