Walkabout Virtual Holiday Auction
- December 01 2020 - December 06 2020
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- December 01 2020 - December 06 2020
Paris Marathon 2021
- April 11 2021
8:00 am - 3:00 pm
- April 11 2021
Royal Parks Half Marathon 2020
- April 11 2021
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
- April 11 2021
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Yana Rydnik2020-09-25 14:42:502020-09-25 14:49:50Walkabout Supporter, Kirk In The New York Times
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Joel’s Story
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/in Stories /by Yana Rydnik
Joel is 24 and living in one of the largest refugee camps in Northern Uganda. After surviving polio as a child, Joel lost the ability to walk and did not have access to a wheelchair. Even without a mobility aid, Joel was not without hope. He would crawl every day to school and then university, determined to […]
Emmanuel’s Story
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/in Stories /by Yana Rydnik
Emmanuel is an adorable 12 year old with an incredible smile. He was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, which has meant that he has never been able to walk. When his father found out about Emmanuel’s disability when he was just 6 months old, he abandoned his family, leaving Emmanuel’s single mother alone and […]
Walkabout Returns To Tackle Refugee Crisis
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/in News /by Yana Rydnik
We have just returned from Northern Uganda, one of the poorest parts of the country and the heart of one of the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. With hundreds of people crossing the border every day, fleeing conflict and famine in South Sudan, Uganda is now host to over 1 million refugees. Last year, […]
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 […]