Offaly Camino Canal Way charity walk from Tullamore to Croghan Hill this Saturday
Walkers to attend Mass and barbecue following walk for Self Help Africa
THE countdown is well and truly on for the annual Offaly Camino Canal Way Charity Walk in aid of Self Help Africa.
The organisers are hoping for a massive response to the event this coming Saturday, February 1, as they celebrate their 8th Annual Offaly Camino Canal Way Charity Walk.
The walk starts at the Fiona Pender Memorial along the Tullamore Canal Way at 9am for Self Help Africa.
Also donations on the day of the event will be gratefully received and will go directly to the charity. Food and beverages will be supplied throughout the walk and thanks are extended to local sponsors for their generosity.
After the walk there will be a special Mass at 2.30pm on Croghan Hill with Fr. Greg and the local Croghan St. Brigids Choir for everyone and and a barbecue and tea/coffee for all walkers.
It is advised to pack a change of clothes which can be transported to Croghan hill for you.
There will be water/snack stops and toilet breaks at Ballycommon and Daingean and people can join at any point along the way.
This walk will incorporate a spiritual journey for many as it is in conjunction with the Camino way (The Way of Saint James).
Funds raised are earmarked for a livelihoods and food security project in Baringo in Kenya. Self Help Africa is dedicated to ending hunger and poverty in rural Africa, especially in east Africa in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda where some 26 million people are hungry and thirsty at this time and where someone is dying every 48 seconds.
In Africa some 250 million people, farmers and their families, suffer hunger and malnutrition and are struggling in extreme rural poverty without enough food.
Self Help Africa is the charity of the Irish Farmers Association.
If you would like to be part of this special event or to make a donation towards the charity or to sponsor a participant please contact Laz Molloy on 0866778807 or Aislinn Molloy 0870688530, Ricey Scully 086 8153047, Paul Galvin 087 8375407, Nora Kavanagh 087 9945964, Siobhan Dunne Kelly 087 8557796, Mark Plunkett 083 0459377 , Dave Kavanagh 083 3720950, Vanessa Shortall 087 7936794 or Tracey Dooley on 087 9557160 to receive your sponsorship card or to make a donation and find out further information about this event.