Hyundai gets behind Save Our Sons for charity walk

Elie Eid to walk 320km from Sydney to Canberra with son to raise awareness for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Founder of the charity Save Our Sons, Elie Eid, will walk from Sydney to Parliament House, Canberra to raise awareness of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) on starting May 1st.

Elie will be pushing his son, Emilio, suffers from DMD and is in a wheelchair, the entire 320km distance from Dulwich Hill in Sydney to Parliament House in the nation's capital. 

They will be joined on the walk by Ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer and the group are scheduled to arrive in Canberra on May 12th.

Elie and Emilio will be supported in their walk by Hyundai, who provided four vehicles to accompany them as they make their way through Parramatta, Bowral and Goulburn on their way to Canberra.

The father and son pair will be joined at the start of the trek on Friday by Save Our Sons ambassadors including former NRL players Mark Geyer and Terry Lamb, Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson as well as Home and Away stars Ada Nicodemou and Lynne McGranger.

Save Our Sons aims to raise $3.5 million over the next two years to help fund clinical trials and research into a cure for DMD

Earlier this week, Save Our Sons supporter James Reid and a team of runners pushed a wheelchair from Newcastle to Sydney as part of a 48 hour marathon to help raise awareness of the fatal disease.

Elie says the wheelchair is a symbol of "the harsh reality that families like mine face".

"The wheelchair is where children with DMD end up and it is all we as parents are left with when our children suffering this fatal condition pass away at a young age," he said.

The walk to Canberra is part of a push by Save Our Sons to raise $3.5 million over the next two years to help fund clinical trials and research into a cure for DMD. Since 2008, the group has already been able to fund research in Australia, as well as the UK and United States.

Donations to Save Our Sons can be made here.