Brave Hearts

Author(s): Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Eye Care Foundation

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The Brave Hearts
could be helpful in this humanitarian task. He thought and thought about it. Many ideas came to his mind one after the other. He considered many plans and projects. Not one of them was easy to implement. Finally he thought of
RATHON a plan that could be put into practice.
Terry Fox One day in April 1980 an advertisement appeared in the newspapers of Canada stating that a daredevil youth, who has only one foot, has decided to cover the entire area of the country from one end to the other by running with the help of an artificial leg. This announcement created an upheaval in the whole country because geographically speaking Canada is a big country and therefore to cross it from one end to another by running on foot is difficult even for a strong person. How then would it be possible for Terry Fox to do it, more so when he was suffering from cancer and had an artificial leg !
Many people tried to dissuade him from undertaking such an adventure. Some thought that it was a mere folly of his which would ultimately ruin him. But he did not budge an inch and remained adamant. Ultimately his objective was too laudable to be discarded lightly. He wanted to raise funds for cancer research, to find a cure for the disease that was claiming so many lives in the world.
The entire country was eagerly awaiting the run to take place. The newspapers gave a prominent coverage to it. The Canadian radio also started broadcasting news about it for the benefit of the people. It received wide coverage on national
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