The Walkabout Foundation’s second annual walk will commence on September 13th in Lucca, Italy and follow a segment of the Via Francigena, an ancient path that led from Canterbury to Rome, for 250 kilometers over seven days. In the heart of Tuscany, the founders, their family, and friends will walk over 30 kilometers each day and finish on September 19th in the village of Radicofani.
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The Walkabout Foundation traveled to Haiti on May 18, 2010 with 400 “rough rider” wheelchairs manufactured by the social enterprise, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, and was able to fit and adjust each spinal cord injured patient and amputee to his/her chair.
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Walkabout traveled to Cap Haitien in the very north of Haiti to donate 25 wheelchairs to Haiti Hospital Appeal. This is a video of a room full of patients singing together in harmony as a means of praying.
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On April 12, 2010, The Walkabout Foundation met Shakira who expressed admiration for Walkabout’s cause and endorsed its mission.
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Clara Martinez-Thedy, the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the UAE, invited The Walkabout Foundation to attend the opening reception in Abu Dhabi as the guest of honor and screen its video of Haiti.
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Matias Gonzalez-Bunster, a 16 year-old sophomore at Brunswick School in Greenwich Connecticut, and his classmate Tommy O’Malley, designed a t-shirt with the word “Haiti” written across the front and a picture of the Haitian flag on the back. Underneath the flag is written, “individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean.”
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On January 18, 2010, 6 days after the devastating earthquake hit the Caribbean nation of Haiti, Carolina and her father Rolando traveled to Port-au-Prince on behalf of The Walkabout Foundation. The Walkabout Foundation will donate 1,000 wheelchairs to Haiti and is scheduled to deliver the first 400 wheelchairs in May 2010.
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This past October 2009, Luis and Team Reeve, the athletic fundraising program of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, spent three days touring The Grand Canyon. Inaugurating a wheelchair accessible path around the natural wonder of the world, Luis was able to take part in this unbelievable experience thanks to The Walking Connection.
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The creative genius behind the fabulous and trendy handbag line Meli Melo, Melissa del Bono, launched the Bespoke Bon Bog bag at Gas Boutique in St. Tropez on July 17, 20009. A percentage of the proceeds of the Bespoke Bon Bon bags on sale that evening went to The Walkabout Foundation.
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On Friday, November 20th, The Cross Keys pub in London hosted “November Fest,” a fundraiser event for The Walkabout Foundation. Thanks to the generosity and support of the pub’s owner Andrew Bourne, the event was a fun-filled party…
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