Walk for mobility

By Sarah Schwager
SIX Casey people walked to raise awareness for the Wheelchair Foundation of Australia this week.
The Wheelchair Walk made its way from Geelong across the heads and around the bay to the City of Casey, finishing in Dandenong on Tuesday afternoon.
Sharon Mammone, one of the directors of the Wheelchair Foundation of Australia and secretary of the Victorian branch, said since starting up in Australia two years ago, the foundation had helped many people, including Indigenous people and those in the South Pacific Islands get mobile.
“We provide mobility and dignity to people who need wheelchairs so that they can rejoin the community,” she said.
“To most of those people, wheelchairs were never an affordable option.”
The six members from Narre Warren North and Endeavour Hills left Geelong at 1pm on Sunday, visiting Queenscliff, Rosebud and Dromana, and stopping overnight at Sorrento and Hastings.
They reached the Endeavour Hills Shopping Centre on Tuesday afternoon where they presented an Australian flag to Narre Warren North MP Luke Donellan.
“The foundation provides opportunity for hope and mobility and also independence for those in need,” Mr Donellan said.