An amputee academy is set to start in the country in the next few months. The academy is the brainchild of Richoff Amputee Foundation, a non-governmental organization set up by former Ghana National Amputee Football team captain, Richard Offer. The academy will cover a 40-acre parcel of land donated by the chief of the Central Regional town, Komenda-Dominase, Nana Kow Baisie II. Addressing a durbar at Komenda-Dominase during the Dwowdzi or Yam Afahye festival on Saturday 31st August 2013, Nana Baisie II said: “I have travelled far and wide and in my travel I have seen an amputee wearing a military uniform at the war front, an amputee holding a gun at the war front and an amputee directing a big company. That was what motivated me to give them the land for this project.” Mr Richard Offer, whose football career was almost cut short at an early age following an accident, promised that the foundation will work hard to make the project a reality. The academy is expected to provide training and education for hundreds of amputees who have no means of survival, board member of the foundation, Reverend Kennedy Bentum hinted. He appealed to the people to give the foundation the necessary support for the project to take off.