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Mates team up for Nate

Nate Anderson with Nate Anderson with Luca Traynor, Ruby Copeland, Zavier Zuchetti, Olivia Dimitrovicih and Jace von Berghein.

All Nate Anderson wants is to be able to run around and kick a football with his friends but he has been confined to a wheelchair since his left leg was amputated last year.

To help raise the $15,000 needed to buy Nate, 5, a prosthetic running leg, his schoolmates from Whitford Catholic Primary School are entering a team in the HBF Run for a Reason.

The Year 1 boy was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia early last year and had intense chemotherapy treatment.

A few weeks later Nate started limping painfully and a biopsy revealed a rare, drug-resistant fungal infection was attacking his thighbone.

His mother Monique said the family started preparing for the worst after scans revealed the infection had also invaded the base of his skull. They took him home from hospital to "surround him with love".

Nate then turned a corner and further scans showed the infection in his head had shrunk. But his leg was worse and had to be amputated.

Nate is learning to use a new standard prosthetic leg and plans to walk across the finish line at the fun run on May 24.

Visit https://hbfrun2015.everydayhero.com/au/

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