16 August 2010 - The Mineseeker Foundation this week launched its new aid programme for landmine victims, with the help of South African world record holding runner Oscar Pistorius.

The foundation is commissioning a number of state-of-the-art mobile prosthetics clinics to help victims of landmine blasts worldwide, and Oscar was on hand to officially launch the aid programme with Mineseeker founder Mike Kendrick.

"Oscar has been an international ambassador for the Mineseeker Foundation for several years and has even taken time out of his enormously busy schedule to help us in fitting prosthetic limbs in Mozambique," said Mike Kendrick.

"We're delighted that he could be in the UK to help us launch a new aid programme for landmine victims – our practical help will literally change lives for those affected by landmine blasts and their communities and Oscar has been a driving force within our organisation, an inspiration to all."

Oscar Pistorius is a double amputee who is known as the 'Blade Runner' and 'the fastest man on no legs'. He is the world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres (sport class T44) events and runs with Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs.

"It has been a great honour and truly humbling to be involved with Mineseeker Foundation projects, they are so enormously worthwhile.

"It has been tremendous to have had an active involvement with the aid programme for landmine victims and even more exciting to officially launch the mobile limb clinic schedule for amputees that is certain to change people's lives."

This week, the Mineseeker Foundation replaced prosthetic legs for Mozambique landmine victim Julio Colete – his original prosthetic limbs, supplied and fitted two years ago, had become worn with use and so Mineseeker provided new ones.