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Walt Balenovich's Profile

About Walt Balenovich

This is how Walt is a Changemaker:
I have never thought of myself as a changemaker, but if travelling alone across 6 continents in a wheelchair qualifies me, then I hope that disabled youth and average people will follow. Awareness of the needs of ALL tourists and travellers, in tune with the needs of the EARTH, is what is most important to me.

The place for which Walt feels a fondness or connection:
I think that Africa and South America are places I am most in tune with. They are the most inhospitable for wheelchairs, but that is what makes them most worth adventuring in!

The change Walt passionately wants to happen:
I would like people to become aware of the needs of disabled tourists as inclusion becomes one of the watchwords of this century. But we are less than 1% of the way there! It is both a struggle and an opportunity.

Bio

North America's Disabled Adventurer and author of the book of short stories, "Travels in a Blue Chair". A backpacker in a blue wheelchair travels the world, mostly alone, across 6 continents and 28 countries. I had polio when I was 12 weeks old and spent the first 5 years of my life in hospital. I am an I.T. consultant and part-time adventurer, when time and finances allow.

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