# Amputees launch Limbination: show your stump with pride on social media

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/10/18/amputees-launch-limbination-show-stump-pride-social-media/
- Published: 2014-10-18T01:01:28+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Amputees’ charity Limbcare has launched ‘Limbination: Pride Don’t Hide!’, an awareness
and fundraising campaign that encourages amputees across the UK to share photos 
or videos of their stumps “with pride” across social media.**

The campaign was inspired after [Facebook recently removed the image of an amputee’s stump as they felt it was “offensive”](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2726533/Facebook-orders-war-hero-lost-legs-arm-Afghanistan-remove-picture-offensive-stump.html).

Like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Limbination urges participants to nominate fellow
amputees to post a video or picture of their residual limb.

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[Limbcare](http://www.limbcare.org)‘s founder Ray Edwards MBE, a quadruple amputee,
explained the idea behind the campaign.

He said:

> “We feel this action by Facebook undermines how amputees are perceived by corporations
> and the public in general. Taking down this image is tantamount to sweeping us
> under the carpet, and we won’t be hidden away. With Limbination we are showing
> our residual limbs and nominating fellow amputees to do the same in order to bring
> awareness and acceptance and to raise much needed funds to support those who’ve
> lost limbs, and their families.”

Ray has created his own video:

Limbination encourages participants to ask for a donation of £3 by texting LIMB01
£3 to 70070. It hopes the campaign will be taken up by many of the 110,000 registered
amputees in the UK. 

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