A Kingston company has donated a false leg all the way to South America.

A forestry worker who was moved by the story of a young South American woman wrote to a Kingston-based prosthetics company asking for help to get her a prosthetic leg.

Pearly Isaacs was just 11 years old when she was attacked by a rattlesnake on a farm in south west Guyana but was saved by traditional bush medicine that left her leg amputated.

More than 10 years later she met forestry worker John Home who vowed to help her and wrote to the London Prosthetic Centre in Kingsmill Business Park for help.

Consultant prosthetist Abdo Haidar said: “I was given a little bit of information about Pearly and the struggles she faces in life.

“I felt that it was our duty to do what we could. Making a limb for someone I have never met presented us with an interesting challenge, which I am glad to say we met.”

Mrs Isaacs said: “When I met John and he offered to help me. I did not see how he could. But he did more than I could ever believe. When I was fitted with my new leg it took me a while to get used to it. I feel as if my life has been restored.

“What makes my heart gladdest of all is that people who had no reason to help me have changed my life forever.”