London Marathon 2020
- April 26 2020
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- April 26 2020
2020 Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100
- August 16 2020
5:45 am - 5:00 pm
- August 16 2020
Berlin Marathon 2020
- September 27 2020
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- September 27 2020
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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
Uganda 2017
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
Northern Uganda is the epicentre of one of the biggest refugee crises in the world. With thousands of people flooding into the country every single day, mainly fleeing conflict in South Sudan, life in the sprawling camps is a constant battle for survival. Just imagine living in one of these camps without mobility. Thanks to […]
Guinea 2017: Jida & Maria’s story
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/in Films /by Tiago Silva
Jida and Maria’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
In March 2017, best friends Maria Ricart Karaouni and Jida Khazaal approached Walkabout with a huge goal: to raise enough money for an entire container of wheelchairs for their home country, Guinea. One huge tennis tournament, one donated birthday, and many generous friends, family members and colleagues later, Jida and Maria had achieved their goal. […]