London Marathon 2019
- April 28 2019
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- April 28 2019
Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 2019
- August 04 2019
5:45 am - 5:00 pm
- August 04 2019
Royal Parks Half Marathon 2019
- October 13 2019
8:00 am - 9:00 am
- October 13 2019
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Yana Rydnik2019-04-17 17:22:352019-04-24 16:59:29Ananya's Story
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Yana Rydnik2019-04-17 15:28:482019-04-17 16:02:07340 Wheelchairs In Argentina!
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Sierra Leone 2017
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world, still trying to heal the scars of a brutal 10-year civil war which ended in 2002, leaving the country with a serious lack of infrastructure and overwhelming poverty. In 2014, it saw its already extremely fragile healthcare system collapse even further when it was […]
Nepal 2017 film
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/in Films /by Tiago Silva
The JJ Walkabout Centre
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/in Films /by Tiago Silva
Arielle’s story
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/in Films /by Tiago Silva
Kevin’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
Kevin is 5 years old and lives with his mother Jane and younger brother in Nanyuki. He has cerebral palsy, which has meant that he has never been able to walk. Before he started attending the Walkabout Daycare & Support Centre, Kevin spent most of his time at home, not able to socialise with other […]
Arielle’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
Walkabout Ambassador Arielle Rausin, a 21-year-old Team USA Paralympic athlete from Florida, joined us in Kenya in 2017, after raising enough money for 10 wheelchairs in the 2017 London Marathon. All the children on the distribution loved talking to Arielle about her racing, and she taught them how to push and transfer into their […]
Joseph’s Story
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/in Films, Stories /by Tiago Silva
Joseph is 6 years old and lives with his father Samuel, mother Julia, and baby sister Eunice. Samuel is a self-trained plumber, but the work is temporary and he is often without a job. Since Julia is forced to spend all day at home looking after Joseph and Eunice, she is unable to work, and […]
Walkabout distributes 1000th chair in Kenya!
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
In July 2017, we visited Laikipia County, Kenya, where we distributed 228 paediatric chairs alongside our amazing local partner, UDPL. This means that we have now distributed over 1,000 wheelchairs in Kenya, reaching 21 out of the 47 counties, and impacting an estimated 3,000 lives! When we began distributing chairs with UDPL back in 2014, […]
Women4Walkabout Ladies Luncheon
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/in News /by Tiago Silva
On June 16th, we hosted our Inaugural Women4Walkabout Ladies Luncheon at Claridge’s Hotel, Mayfair. This event, sponsored by Buccellati, brought 320 women together and raised an incredible £250,000 for women affected by disability all over the world. Surrounded by hundreds of beautiful flower bouquets, handmade by our co-founders’ mother, Monica Gonzalez-Bunster, guests were treated to a […]
Dharmender’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
Dharmender is 11 years old and comes from a very poor family who live in a rural village outside Varanasi. When he joined our centre last year, he was barely able to sit up without support – let alone walk – and spent all his time sitting or lying inside his house. Thanks to the […]
Aakash’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
Aakash is 8 years old and is a sweet, intelligent boy with an adorable smile. When Aakash’s mother was pregnant with him, she was unwell, but couldn’t afford to go to the doctor. Aakash was born with cerebral palsy, and was never able to walk. Nor did he ever go to school – in spite […]
Prakash’s story
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/in Stories /by Tiago Silva
In June 2017, we distributed 136 chairs in Bangalore and Varanasi, in some cases reaching recipients from extremely remote villages. It was here that we met Prakash, a 14 year old boy whose last wheelchair broke four years ago. This was the first time he had left his house since. Prakash was initially extremely shy […]