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Rachel’s story
When we met Rachel in Uganda in 2014, she was crawling over 4 kilometres every day just to get to school. She was born with a congenital birth defect, and spent twelve years on the ground – never at eye level of others, often with cuts on her arms and legs, and always dirty. We […]
Creating smiles in Ecuador
In November, Walkabout carried out our first ever distribution in Ecuador, where we travelled to some of the areas most affected by the devastating earthquake earlier this year. We distributed 280 chairs to children and adults in need, lots of whom had lost their family members and homes in the disaster. But in spite of […]
Alicia’s story
San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, is considered the deadliest city in the Western Hemisphere. Violence between gangs and police kills thousands every year, and often those affected are innocent. Alicia was just a year old when she was caught in the crossfire between two gangs and shot, leaving her spinal cord injured […]
First distribution in El Salvador
In October 2016 Walkabout travelled to El Salvador to distribute 250 paediatric wheelchairs. Several of the children we met had been spinal cord injured as a result of the gun violence that has plagued the country for so long. The capital, San Salvador, is considered the deadliest city in the Western Hemisphere. Alicia, one of […]
5th Annual London Walkabout – Best ever!
On Saturday 8th October, we held our 5th Annual London Walkabout in Hyde Park. As promised, it was our biggest and best London Walkabout ever, with over 1,300 people buying tickets (surpassing all previous Walkabouts!) to walk for those who can’t at our flagship fundraising event. In spite of the typically British weather (all four seasons […]
Edisa’s story
Edisa is from Uganda. She is 23 and not only has she never had a wheelchair; just 2 weeks before we met her she had never in her life sat up. Edisa arrived at the distribution lying completely flat and bent over, covering two seats on the back seat of a taxi hired to bring […]
Uganda 2016
This past June, Walkabout travelled back to Jinja, Uganda for the third time. With our fantastic partner, Soft Power Health Clinic, we have now distributed over 600 wheelchairs in the region and for the first time ever, we brought and distributed 30 tricycles (‘trikes’) alongside 200 wheelchairs. Trikes are exceptionally useful for those people with […]
