The Walkabout Foundation in Haiti – donating wheel chairs
Just under a year ago, part-time Casa de Campo residents Luis Gonzalez-Bunster and his sister Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster founded the Walkabout Foundation, to promote awareness of paralysis and disabilities and fund research for spinal cord injuries.On January 18, 2009, 6 days after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, The Walkabout Foundation travelled to Port-au-Prince.
Above is a video about Carolina’s trip to Port au Prince , which is inevitably a devastating insight into the destruction, but is also incredibly inspiring – we can help and with our help Haiti will recover. The video includes an interview with Bill Clinton, a supporter of the Walkabout Foundation, a visit to the UN complex (what is left), a make-shift hospital – it’s a sad story, but one of hope. To donate to the Walkabout Foundation, click here. (Link goes to their website.)
The Walkabout Foundation will donate 1,000 wheelchairs to Haiti within the next 8 weeks and is scheduled to deliver the first 500 wheelchairs in March. Please help the victims of the earthquake regain their mobility, freedom, and independence by donating a wheelchair today.
To read more about the Walkabout Foundation, visit their website: www.thewalkaboutfoundation.org
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It’s been a month since the earthquake – over 2 million
desperately need of food assistance. They have no homes, no
jobs, no food. The World Food Programme was there before the
quake, and they’ll be there afterwards helping to rebuild lives.
If you want to help you should go to:
http://wfp.org/crisis/haiti or text FRIENDS to 90999 to make a
$5 donation