IBTA 2007 Walk and Week

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Warmest congratulations to all our supporters on achieving the target total for the Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours - and more! Our target was 120,000 km (or three times around the world at the Equator) Mileage reported so far is 215,883 kms! And the mileage is still coming in...

The next World Walk starts 1 January 2009. Please visit our website periodically for updates on this and the 2009 International Brain Tumour Awareness Week.

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2007 Walk Around the World & Awareness Week

The IBTA is organising the first International Brain Tumo(u)r Awareness Week during 21-27 October 2007.

A feature of the awareness-raising activity in the lead-up to the Week and during it will be a Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours, whereby we hope that supporters from all around the globe will undertake sponsored or unsponsored walks for brain tumours during 2007 and by the end of the Awareness Week in October these walkers will have covered a total of at least 40,000 kilometres (or 24,901 miles), which is the circumference of the earth at the equator.

We have developed a special webpage with an interactive facility whereby people can submit the distance they walk and the total of the funds they raised. The IBTA wants people to support a brain tumour charity or anti-cancer council in their own region - we are not seeking to collect these funds for the IBTA, although we welcome any separate unrestricted grants or donations to assist the IBTA in organising this activity.

We seek the support of brain tumour charities and anti-cancer councils from anywhere in the world and we will seek to list them on this special World Walk activities webpage for potential walkers/donors to contact.

Walkers of all ages, shapes, speeds and sizes are welcome. You don't have to be a fast walker.

Brochures in the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and Polish languages, and the Japanese and Dutch languages (posters only), promoting the World Walk and the Awareness Week, have been prepared.

Start planning a walk now. Identify a brain tumour support group or charity in your area that is willing to receive your donation, or a local anti-cancer council, select a date, recruit your friends and tell us about your activity - the total of the funds you raised and the distance covered by you and your friends. Photos of any walk activities would also be welcome. Contact the IBTA Chair (chair@theibta.org) or Secretary (kathy@theibta.org)

US singer David Bailey, who is a ten-year GBM survivor, has allowed the IBTA to use his song "Keep on walking" as the official theme for the 2007 Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours. This has been reproduced on a single-track CD which the IBTA will send to all those who organise an awareness raising activity. See News item dated 20 May 2007 for the words of the song. David visited the UK during the Awareness Week and a report of his visit will be uploaded shortly.

POSTSCRIPT: A large number of events, including 83 walks, were held in a total of 18 countries.

Some of the scheduled activites were listed here.
Reports (with photos) of completed activities were listed here and here.

Please note: The above items are large PDF files of between 2 and 3 Mb size. The IBTA website was reorganised in 2008 and some of the blue hyperlinks to further information or other websites and webpages are now redundant.

Notes: The IBTA is aware that in the United States "tumour" is spelled "tumor" and will use that spelling for printed materials directed to that region. It was also the intention of the founding meeting that we seek to represent all tumours of the central nervous system. As is the practice in the scientific literature and clinical use, we use the words "brain tumour", not "brain cancer".

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