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Extreme Rolling 2010 - Melbourne to Darwin Challenge

Extreme Rolling is about two extreme rolla's whose intention is to contribute to the world one roll at a time. We are using Adventure as a catalyst for change.

Our next adventure is riding 5000km (3000mi) from Melbourne to Darwin, Australia from February 17 to June 17 2010.

About a year ago (2008) Andreas called Dale Elliot (A fellow speaker and paraplegic living in South Australia) and said "How would you like to ride from Melbourne to Darwin on a Handcycle in 2010?".  Dale said "Sure... What's a Handcycle?" And in that moment Extreme Rolling was born.

We took the idea of a handcycling adventure and combined two other concepts... To impact as many children as possible and to raise an awareness of disability.

In 2010 we will journey over 4 months through the interior of Australia covering some 5000km, visiting 150 schools and connecting with as many communities and people along the way as possible. In addition we plan to raise in excess of $200,000.00 to help cure over 1000 children of clubfoot in Kenya.

With your help and support we can make this adventure a part of thousands, perhaps millions of Australian's lives.

"Clubfoot effects 1 in 750 children worldwide. In Africa most children never receive treatment, for just $200 a child can walk for the rest of their life!."

Clubfoot is a condition that is easily treatable at birth. Unfortunately, more than 200,000 babies will be born with clubfoot this year in the developing world and will not receive the treatment they need. With your help and just $200, we can cure clubfoot and make sure that many disabled children get the cure they need before surgery is their only option. If caught before a child is 2 years old, we can treat clubfoot with a series of casts -- avoiding surgery and the pain of growing up with crooked feet. We hope to expand this program into 100 countries over the next ten years and you can help us eradicate clubfoot from the planet!

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Included is some insight on how Andreas used these concepts to to ride his handcycle 16,000km around Australia in one year from April 2005 to April 2006.

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