Offaly Camino Canal Way Walk in aid of Self Help Africa to be held over St Brigid's Bank Holiday weekend
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 year as they celebrate their seventh Annual Offaly Camino Canal Way Charity Walk which starts at the Fiona Pender Memorial along the Tullamore Canal Way at 9am on Sunday, February 4.
If you require a sponsorship card please do get in contact with me at ronan.scully@selfhelpafrica.org. Or to register or set up a fundraising page for the event go to https://www.idonate.ie/event/offalycaminocanalwaywalk2024 or further information at https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/offaly-camino-canal-way-walk/
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 we thank local sponsors for this. After the walk there will be a special Mass at 2pm on Croghan Hill with Fr Greg. There will be a BBQ and tea/coffee for all walkers. It is advised to pack a change of clothes which can be transported to Croghan hill for you.
The walk begins at 9am sharp in the morning at the Fiona Pender Way memorial in Tullamore. As we take our voyage along the Canal there will be water/snack stops and toilet breaks at Ballycommon and Daingean and people can join us at any point along the way as we make our way to Croghan Hill for mass at 2pm. This walk will incorporate a spiritual journey for many as it is in conjunction with the Camino way (The Way of Saint James), our Canal Way walk is the way of St Brigid.
You can also donate online at various facebook/social media fundraising pages set up by the participants taking part that has been set up with the online donation going to the charity.
If you would like to be part of this special event or to make a donation towards the charity or to sponsor a participant for such a special charity cause please contact Laz Molloy on 0866778807 or Aislinn Molloy 0870688530 or Ricey Scully 086 8153047 or Paul Galvin 087 8375407 or Nora Kavanagh on 087 9945964 or Mark Plunkett on 083 0459377 or Dave Kavanagh on 083 3720950 or Vanessa Shortall on 087 7936794 or Tracey Dooley on 087 9557160 to receive your sponsorship card or to make a donation.
If any company, business or individual would like to offer sponsorship the organisers are looking for people or companies to sponsor one of the km’s of the 20km walk and they will dedicate that km to the sponsor with signage and information about them. The walk will maintain a pace which is suitable to people of all levels of fitness. See details about the Offaly Camino Canal Way Walk Challenge 2024 and further details about the charities work on www.selfhelpafrica.org.
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, struggling in extreme rural poverty without enough food; left behind by rising economic growth. Self Help Africa is a leading international development charity with an expertise in small-scale farming and growing family-farm businesses and has many Agri-Finance programmes and responds to emergency situations within the 17 countries they work in Africa. They are motivated by injustice, by their expertise in small-scale agriculture, family-farm business and agri-business, and the opportunity they have to help small farmers change the lives of their families. Self Help Africa is also the charity of the Irish Farmers Association.