CAMBOWALK 2009: 14th November, "Walk for Education to combat poverty"

By Nomadic Chris, 4 November 2009

Do you ever take your shoes or slippers for granted?

Can you imagine walking several miles everyday to collect food and supplies without proper protection for your feet?

The Hong Kong based, student-run NGO, "Humanity in Focus" are organizing their first fundraiser, CamboWalk 2009, to let Hong Kong people experience some of the difficulties people in developing nations face without proper footwear.

CamboWalk is a fundraising and life experience walkathon organized by Hong Kong University's student-run NGO, "Humanity in Focus" (HIF), with the following two main objectives:

1. To raise local students’ awareness towards poverty problems in Cambodia

2. To raise funds for the "Hope For Slums Project" supported by "Humanity in Focus"

Details are as follows:

Date: Saturday, 14th November 2009

Registration Time: 09:45

Opening Ceremony Time: 10:30

Start Point: SKH Lui Ming Choi Secondary School (Wah Fu)

End Point: The University of Hong Kong

Time for the Journey: approximately 3 hours

Division: Individual Team (at least 5 participants)

Application Fee: $50/person

Minimum Donation: $100/person

Programme Highlights: Participants will make your own pair of paper slippers and walk the miles to our destination in those paper slippers.

There are many reasons to Join Cambo Walk!

Experience
Ever tried wearing paper slippers and walking for a long distance? If not, here is the opportunity! This will be the chance to wear paper slippers and have the first-hand experience of the hardship Cambodian children face on their everyday journey to school.

In the rural areas of Cambodia, without public transport system, Cambodian children have to wear slippers to walk for hours just to reach school!

Action
CamboWalk offers you a chance to take action to make the world a better place because all donations raised will be used in Humanity in Focus’s "Hope For Slums Campaign" in Cambodia.

Want to have fun and change the world at the same time? Then, hurry, sign up and join CamboWalk 2009!


  PART 2 - Interview with "HUMANITY IN FOCUS": Focusing on the Real Issues
  PART 1 - Interview with "HUMANITY IN FOCUS": Focusing on the Real Issues



  



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