Girl travels to Hungary to walk

Molly's parents are hopeful she will be able to learn to walk

A little girl from Leicestershire is going to the world-famous Peto Institute in Hungary to learn to walk.

Four-year-old Molly Brown was born healthy, but when she was just a month old she contracted bronchial pneumonia.

She spent three months in hospital and developed severe learning difficulties and conditions similar to those of someone with cerebral palsy.

Leicestershire charity, Heart Link, wants to raise about £10,000 to help Molly and her family.

Conductive education is a unique system designed to improve motor skills, comprising exercises broken down into basic functional movements.

These are done intensively at the Peto Institute for several hours a day in small groups.

Molly's father Graham said: "That's one of our main aims, to make her walk. That would give her so much freedom and so much more of an environment to explore, which hopefully will bring her along in other areas as well."

The family leave for Hungary on 24 July and Molly will undergo just under a fortnight of therapy.