Campaign for UK volunteer left paralysed in Columbia
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Ironside
on Jan 14, 2010
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Dan Eley spent years helping children on the streets of South America - now though it is him who needs help.
The 32 year old broke his neck in a swimming accident over the new year.
It took three days for Dan to be airlifted from a small local hospital to a medical clinic in Bogota, where he could receive the proper treatment.
But his insurance does not cover the the estimated £90,000 needed to get a specialist air ambulance to fly him home to the UK.
His family and friends have now launched an appeal to get him back to Britain.
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I thought I recognised the name Casa Alianza (the charity he was volunteering for). I recognise it because a young lad called Nahaman Carmona Lopez, a street kid who was brutally murdered by police in Guatemala city in 1990, used to frequent their shelter in Guatemala City, and I vividly remember reading about the case in an Amnesty magazine when I was at school. They are doing great work and although I can't help here because I don't have enough money, I'll spread the word.
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