Ramesh Ferris

Cycle to Walk aims to raise funds and awareness to forward the global eradication of polio, to educate about the continuing need for immunization against polio and to support the rehabilitation of polio survivors in poor countries.

Follow Ramesh's Journey

Ferris wheels across Canada to fight polio

by Media Coordinator, posted in Press Coverage - Mon, August 18, 2008

Here is a follow-up article published by the Toronto Sun.

As you are reading this column a very determined 28- year-old young man named Ramesh Ferris is riding across Canada on a handcycle, a tricycle propelled by his arms. As an infant of six months of age in his native India, Ramesh Ferris lost the full use of his legs to paralysis from polio. Now he is embarked on an arduous journey to raise awareness of polio and to raise money for its full and final eradication.

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