Follow Ramesh's Journey

L’Écho de Maskinongé did this piece on Cycle to Walk as we travelled past Montréal to Trois Rivières.

Parti de Victoria en Colombie-Britannique le 12 avril dernier, Ramesh Ferris, originaire de Whitehorse au Yukon, était de passage dans la région afin d’amasser des fonds pour la polio, maladie infectieuse aiguë qui s’attaque à la substance grise de la moelle épinière.

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A release Cycle to Walk’s visit to Montréal’s City Hall:

Mme Francine Senécal, vice-présidente du comité exécutif, responsable des sports, des loisirs a accueilli à l’hôtel de ville, le coureur athlète canadien d’origine indienne, M. Ramesh Ferris, qui a entrepris une longue traversée du pays pour recueillir des fonds contre la poliomyélite. Il a été invité à signer le livre d’or de la ville.

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Cycle to Walk’s recent visit to Montréal was featured by the Globe and Mail.

MONTREAL, Aug. 19 /CNW Telbec/ - Mrs. Francine Senécal, Vice-president of the Montréal Executive Committee responsible for sports and leisure, today welcomed to city hall Indian-born Canadian athlete Ramesh Ferris, who began to handcycle acrossCanada to raise money and awareness for polio.

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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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The Upper Ottawa Valley’s Daily Observer published this article as Ramesh cycled through the area:

Since 1988, the world community has come together to immunize more than two billion children. To accomplish this massive program has required the co-operation of more than 200 countries and the work of 20 million volunteers. As a direct result, last year there were only 1,315 cases worldwide. There are only four remaining countries with uninterrupted endemic transmission of polio. They are Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. These four countries accounted for 1,208 of the remaining cases in 2007.

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Ramesh and the Cycle to Walk team had a very positive meeting with The Honourable Stéphane Dion on August 11, 2008.

Meeting with The Honourable Stéphane Dion captured on Liberal TV

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