Deirdre Maguire
Camino for Concern
Fundraising for Concern Worldwide, Northern Ireland
Story
On 14th July 2011, I, along with my big sister Catherine Murphy will begin our Camino.
The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known in English as The Way of St James, is a collection of old pilgrimage routes which cover all Europe. They all have Santiago de Compostela in north west Spain as their final destination. For more than 1000 years pilgrims have been walking along the Camino de Santiago.
Our Camino (which is entirely self funded) will begin in a village called Sarria in Galicia, north west Spain and we will spend the next few days walking the 120km to Santiago de Compostela with our rucksacks on our back, walking about six hours per day and staying in albergues (hostels). We hope to have walked the total distance to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in 5 days.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and all donations are greatly appreciated!
Buen Camino!
About the charity
Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to reducing suffering and ending extreme poverty. Since the beginning, over 40 years ago, our focus has been on improving the lives of the poorest people.
To achieve our mission we work in developing countries where our programmes comprise both long term development work and responses to emergency situations. We also seek to address the root causes of poverty through our advocacy and development education work.
Concern Worldwide works in 28 of the poorest countries around the world. Last year alone, we worked directly with ten million people to find long-term solutions to extreme poverty.
Concern focuses on five key programme areas: Emergency Response, Health and Nurtition, HIV/AIDS, Livelihood Security and Education. We work directly with poor communities, asking them what would be the greatest long term improvements to their lives.