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Wheeling2Help vol.2 was a Pan-Hellenic charity event in which volunteers began cycling on September 7th from Constantinople to end up in Heraklion, Crete. The purpose of the action was to raise 19,000 Euros for the purchase of 100 wheelchairs, through crowd founding and the placement of piglets at selected locations.

The trolleys were delivered to twenty cities in action, 5 in each city, at celebrations organized on this occasion, and in order to raise awareness of the problems of people with disabilities, social care, participation in sports activities.
THE KINSEP 5 ONE, in the framework of its social activities, she had undertaken the coordination of the volunteers of Tripoli and the organization of the celebration in the city.
The event was held under the auspices of the Region of Peloponnese, while co-organizers were the Municipality of Tripoli and the Association of People with Disabilities in Arkadia.
On Thursday, September 29th, the events began with the gathering of cyclists at Areos Square. Then they traveled to the village of Steno where they welcomed the volunteers and accompanied them back to the Square.
There was the ceremony for the delivery of the wheelchairs to the Disabled People Club of Arkadia and shortly thereafter the sport and artistic events of 34 clubs, groups and companies began. There were places where experiential games and actions related to everyday life but also the individual skills and abilities of the people with disabilities, demonstrations of paralympic sports and the participation of everyone who wanted them were created; two tennis courts were set up where a paraglider in a stroller was fighting with anyone who wanted to try cycling clubs, presentation of cart-racing cars converted for driving by people with disabilities, artistic workshops, dance shows and finally concert.
Five donors responded to the action by depositing money symbolically for the purchase of 5 wheelchairs and 40 companies, clubs and teams who put piglets in their premises.
16 companies also provided materials for the event.
In the past and the following days, parallel events took place, with the collection of food and basic necessities and clothing on behalf of the Regional Welfare Directorate, and a bicycle ride from the Mediterranean to Paralio Astros, with the care of the North Parents and Guardian Associations Kynouria.
The whole event was crowned with absolute success, since the number of participants and those who attended the events was among the largest, while in terms of raising money, the amount of money contributed by Arcadia to the campaign was the largest of all other cities and regions of Greece