2OI9 TCS New York City Marathon
- November 03 2019
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
- November 03 2019
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Yana Rydnik2019-07-16 17:48:322019-07-16 17:48:32Designer Closet Sale 2109!
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Sierra Leone 2018
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/in Stories /by Yana Rydnik
Sierra Leone is a beautiful, green and mountainous country and yet considered one of the poorest in the world. It has suffered through a long, dark history of a 10 year civil war, followed by an Ebola epidemic, leaving the country in a stage of extreme poverty, but things are slowly changing for the better. […]
Young Volunteers in Kenya
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/in Stories /by Yana Rydnik
In July 2018, the Walkabout Team visited our Wheelchair Assembly and Daycare Centre in Nanyuki, Kenya, accompanied by four very special, young volunteers: Ines, Massimo, Giovanni and Greg. Driven by their energy and motivation, we distributed 60 life-changing paediatric wheelchairs. The young team also dedicated 2 days to painting the classroom walls in our Daycare […]
Haiti 2018
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/in Stories /by Yana Rydnik
In June 2018, we headed to Haiti to distribute 163 paediatric wheelchairs. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, and has recently experienced massive political and social upheaval, with riots and violence leaving the country in distress. It is home to some of the world’s most underprivileged children. We visited the […]
London Walkabout 2018 – Great Success!
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/in News /by Yana Rydnik
On Saturday, September 29th we held our biggest London Walkabout ever, with over 1,200 people walking for those who can’t and raising a record-breaking £115,000 NET! That’s the equivalent of 460 life-changing wheelchairs! We want to say a huge thank you to each and every person that helped make this event such a success: from […]
The Walkabout Wheelchair Centre, Kenya
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/in Films, News /by Tiago Silva
Closet Sale success!
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
In June 2018, Walkabout embarked on one of our biggest fundraising ventures ever – we opened our very own week-long pop-up shop in Chelsea! The designer closet sale, which sold generous donors’ second-hand clothes, with at least 50% of the proceeds going to our projects, raised a whopping £70k gross – and £43k net! We […]
Partnership with Free Wheelchair Mission
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/in News /by Walkabout Foundation
In April 2018, we travelled to Kenya to receive a very special container of wheelchairs. This was our first shipment of chairs from Free Wheelchair Mission (FWM), a US-based charity that designs and manufactures high quality, rough-terrain chairs, with whom we are now proud to be working in partnership. By combining their wheelchair supply with […]
Sudan 2018
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
In February 2018, team Walkabout travelled to Sudan for the third time for our biggest ever distribution of 620 basic wheelchairs, paediatric chairs and tricycles. We spent two weeks in three locations in the capital, Khartoum, personally fitting hundreds of wheelchairs for children and adults in desperate need. Every beneficiary differs in what they need […]
Africa Serena: 30 Years Later
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
Clara Martínez Thedy is a recognised artist of the lens whose work has been widely exhibited around the world. Her photographs have also been published in a variety of books and magazines, as well as forming parts of important private art collections. In 1987, Clara embarked on a journey to Africa which was destined to […]
Selina’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
Selina is the youngest of 7 children. She was displaced from her home in South Sudan two years ago; her loving parents travelled for three days, her mother carrying her on her back, to get to safety at the Ugandan border. Born with cerebral palsy, Selina has never been able to walk, therefore relying on […]
Richard’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
Richard arrived at our distribution dragging himself along the dirt floor with the help of a rice bag underneath him. He had suffered a serious hip injury a few years before, dislocating it and leaving his right leg extremely difficult to move. Without the help of any medical attention or physiotherapy, his condition worsened and […]
Walkabout in Northern Uganda
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/in Films /by Tiago Silva