Young shark attack victim launches Lulu Strong Foundation

(WALA) - The young victim of a shark attack more than a year ago continues to inspire those around her and help amputees get the treatment they need.

Over the weekend, 17-year-old Lulu Gribbin officially announced the launch of her nonprofit, the Lulu Strong Foundation.

Its mission is to give amputees quicker access to modern prosthetics and virtual-reality therapy, tools that played a major role in her own recovery after she lost her left hand and right leg in a shark attack at a beach in Florida.

“And that’s not available everywhere,” she said. “And so we’re just going to try to fundraise that research and then expand it to other projects and eventually make prosthetics lighter, more durable, more functionable and overall just enhance prosthetics in the amputee world.”

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