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VIERDAAGSE NIJMEGEN 2011:
From The Netherlands:
By Boyen Baleva
Utrecht-The Netherlands
Tue 26th July 2011
For the third year in a row, fourteen-year old Kyle G. Baleva finished the gruelling 120 kilometer four-day hiking event in Nijmegen, dubbed the “Walk of the World”, on 22 July, and was able to solicit more than €2,000 in pledges and donations from sponsors in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, and the USA. As in the two previous years, proceeds from Kyle’s charity walk will go to the A Hand for an Orphan project of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center, based in the Philippines.
The International Four Days Marches of Nijmegen is considered to be the biggest marching event in the world, drawing in more than 40,000 participants per year. Coming from all over the world, participants walk 30, 40 or 50 kilometers for four days in a row – depending on their age – culminating in a walk through the famed Via Gladiola. Finishers receive the Four Days Medal for their efforts, an official decoration of the Netherlands.
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Kyle being interviewed by Nijmegen 1 radio reporter, after the second day of the 2011 Four Days Marches of Nijmegen
For Kyle though, the real reward for finishing the gruelling four-day marches is the support he gathers for the beneficiaries of the A Hand for an Orphan. “I consider myself very lucky,” he declares, “Both my parents are alive, we enjoy three meals in a day and I go to a good school. Gathering donations to help children who are less fortunate is the least I can do.”
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