IO-year walk and 49 pairs of shoes but he got here

THE LONG ANn WINDING ROAD

Shane Cowlishaw international decade for peace andnon-violence for children.

He had travelled 68,300kilometres '-ihe' arrived inNew Ze '.. nth, well onhis way 75,OOOkmover64i

Dur ej eyhe hasstayed ith 1500families, crossedsix des and met thousands ofpeople luding Nelson Mandelaand the president of South Korea.

The gregarious Mr Beliveau

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He has been raising money forchildren's charity Barnardoswhile in New Zealand, and adoptsa different organisation in eachcountry he walks through.

Mr Beliveau has mixedemotions about the end of his epicjourney, which has seen him inaccommodation ranging frommausoleums to police cells.

People treat him differentlynow, he says, no longer scepticalas they were in the beginning.

dropped into the Shoe Clinic inWillis St, after a meeting withWellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, to pick up his 49th pair offresh shoes,

He now begins hiS trek up toAuckland, from where he will flyto Vancouver to make the finaljourney across his homeland.

Having sent home every pair ofshoes as they are replaced, he canexpect an impressi,v.e - if smelly -closet.

NEW ZEALAND really is the end 'of the Earth for Jean Beliveau,who has nearly reached thefmishing line of a l().year walkaround the world.

The French Canadian arrivedin Wellington on Tuesday,halfway through the New Zealandleg of his stroll around the globe.

Mr Beliveau left Canada in 2000in support of the Unesco

He agrees he probably has themost understanding wife in theworld. She has flown out to visithim each year, no matter wherehe was. "I think we're both rathercrazy people]" he says,

Counting down the monthsrather than the years is apleasure, but his crusade forchildren's rights is far from overand will continue long after thewalk. "It will be my pleasure andduty to give back."

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