Gage, who was born missing the tibia in his right leg and underwent an above-the-knee amputation when he was just 11 months old, is a gifted athlete and a trend-setting fundraiser.
After receiving a life-changing running blade at the 2015 Pirate Camp, Beavers wanted to help others. So, in 2017, he began asking for donations—in lieu of birthday gifts—to purchase blades for his fellow swashbucklers.
Beavers’ efforts snowballed, and he has now raised over $11,000 that, thanks to help from Stilwell and the NSN Foundation, is enabling six other pirates to run, swim and play on the beach—activities and environments that typical insurance-provided hydraulic prosthetics couldn’t mechanically support—using high-performance blades.
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