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I Want to Walk Program Events
Vodka Testing Fundraiser – to support the I Want to Walk program took place on March 5th 2011 at the home of Alice Zimet, a place well known as a private photography collection. A lot of fun with testing different types of vodka, eating delicious blintz and enjoying live music was had by all. It was a great way to welcome spring and support children with missing limbs.
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| Roman Kaplan (right) founder of Russian Samovar Restaurant and Alex Grafov, founder of BonBlazeFire - Wine Sorbetto |
Guests of the party |
I Want to Walk - 2010, took place in Moscow in December with a premiere of the documentary ‘On His Own Two Feet’, http://video.yandex.ru/users/inva-faktor-tv/view/224/ produced and directed by Natasha Shaginian-Needham. Journalist Vasily Arkanov was the screenwriter and co-producer. The film was shown in a well known 35mm cinema in Moscow. The event ‘I Want to Walk’ was organized and hosted by the Artist Foundation with actors Evgeny Mironov and Maria Mironova. Dr. Herring, Lyndon Olsen, the president of the Board of Dallas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, and Don Cummings attended the event. Sasha Shul’Chev, the main character of the documentary was at the premiere along with other children who, like him, received their prosthetics at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and can walk now. The documentary received a lot of attention from the public and it should help more children with missing limbs to make their Dream to Walk come true. Dr. Herring and Don Cummings met the Russian colleagues in St. Petersburg at the Albrecht Center of Prosthetics and Rehabilitation. Russian Doctors plan to visit the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in the summer of 2011 for training in order to help children with missing limbs in Russia.
ORPHANED CHILDREN ARE GETTING THE CHANCE TO WALK!
Actors Evgeny Mironov & Maria Mironova and Natasha Shaginian-Needham, founders of ‘Artists Foundation’. |
Dr. Tony Herring, Don Cummings |
 ‘Sasha Shul’Chev and Vanya Abramenko |
On September 4th, 2009 at the Theater of Dramatic Art in Moscow, Natasha Shaginian-Needham with the Artist Foundation organized and hosted the event ‘I Want to Walk’ for orphaned children with missing limbs. Famous actors read wonderful poems written by children from the orphanage. The talented children of Vladimir Spivakov's Foundation produced a musical program devoted to these children who dream to walk. The funds raised will support the children travelling to the Dallas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Texas for surgery and prosthetics.
Without prosthetics, many orphans are unable to attend higher education and cannot live independently. If they do not get help now, they will be doomed to spend all their lives in homes for the disabled.
On September 2nd and 3rd, in the Filatov American Hospital Dr. Tony Herring, Chief Surgeon, and Don Cummings examined 22 children with missing limbs. Dr. Herring performs the most difficult operations and Don prepares unique prostheses. They both work in the Dallas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, where every year hundreds of children rise to their feet and learn to walk for the first time in their lives, and where all treatment is provided to children free of charge.
Dallas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children may accept five children per year from Russia. Dr. Herring and Don have selected the first group of children who need help the most and would not be able to get in Russia. This means that this year, for five orphaned children their dream to walk will become reality!
The program ‘I Want to Walk’ started a few years ago with Sasha Shul’chev, the boy who was born with no legs. Today Sasha is walking; skiing and helping his friends to make their dream to walk come true.
Together, we can help more children have a chance to walk! Please donate to the ‘I Want to Walk’ program and change a child’s life.
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