John Casson joins Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal charity

Tuesday 25 January 2011

On Wednesday 19 January 2011, John Casson was delighted to be appointed a trustee of Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal.

john-casson-joins-sandy-galls-afghanistan-appeal-committeeThe photograph was taken near Band-i-Mir in central Afghanistan in September 2008 and shows the famous journalist and presenter of News at Ten, Sandy Gall, standing next to John.

Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal is run by a voluntary committee and consultants in the UK, which besides John includes a former diplomat, a professional orthotist, a senior physiotherapist, a midwife and two orthopaedic surgeons. Eleanor Gall is the UK director and Sandy is chairman.

Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal supports its own clinics in Afghanistan. The largest is in Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border. Apart from providing prosthetics and rehabilitation to those Afghans injured in the many years of conflict, it also provides treatment to children suffering with polio, club foot and spina bifida, which is prevalent in this region of the country.