Our Lady of Compassion Parish, Formby - Walking for Water with CAFOD this Lent

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Team fundraiser7 membersThe Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
£3,859
raised of £1,000 target
Event: Walk for Water 2021, from 17 February 2021 to 11 April 2021
This is the only Lent challenge you need! Walk a total of 5 miles (10,000 steps) a day for 40 days. You can do it however you like, wherever you like, with whomever you like! Pull up your laces and join us in the fight against poverty!

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This Lent Fr John & Deacons Joe & John are taking on the Walk for Water Challenge, we are delighted to welcome parishioners who are also taking on the Walk for Water Challenge - it's great to see others getting involved - thank you. We'll be walking 10,000 steps a day (roughly 5 miles) for 40 days to raise money for CAFOD's work around the world.

People can still donate to your own Justgiving link and it will automatically be included in the team amount. Or people can use the team link too.

Through the challenge we'll be raising money for people like Abdella.

Abdella is 23 and lives in Afar, Ethiopia one of the hottest places on earth. He dreams of starting a small business, starting a family and having his own home. He dreams of the day he won't have to walk ten hours to get water. Abdella, like hundreds of people in the area, spends most of a day getting water for his family to drink. He knows that if there was water near his home, his family wouldn't have to worry any more about getting enough to stay alive. Your gift could provide: £5 emergency water, £10 could buy a water container for a family, £39 could buy safe water for a school, £198 could buy bikes for a team of three water engineers to travel to water pumps in remote communities Please share this page, or why not join us in this challenge? Thank you

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This is the only Lent challenge you need! Walk a total of 5 miles (10,000 steps) a day for 40 days. You can do it however you like, wherever you like, with whomever you like! Pull up your laces and join us in the fight against poverty!

About the charity

CAFOD works with local partners and communities across the world - responding to emergencies, promoting long-term development and raising public awareness of the causes of poverty. We work with people of all faiths and none for a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.

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Total raised
£3,858.79
Online donations
£3,798.79

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