The Gulu Walk

[c9]

I heard about this on CBC Radio One a week ago, and forgot to look it up until today. Inspiring, and makes me wish I lived closer so I could participate.

*blink*

Poor me, I live in a safe city an hour away, so I obviously can't take part. I'm such a North American. Part of me thinks I should get off my ass and do it anyway. There's talk about a World Guluwalk toward the end of July, that would be a good thing to participate in.

GuluWalk is the effort by two average Canadians to raise awareness and support for the 'night commuters; the children of rural northern Uganda, who, to avoid abduction by the rebel army, walk every night towards the safety of larger cities, like Gulu, from as far as 12km away. And every morning they return to their homes to work or attend school.

Starting on the night of July 1st, Adrian Bradbury and Kieran Hayward will walk 12.5km from the east end of Toronto into the city centre to sleep outside and will return home every morning at sunrise. Adrian and Kieran are committed to this journey for the entire month and will continue to work and attempt to maintain their normal lifestyle while adding to it a daily 25km walk (775km in 31 days) and an uncomfortable five hours sleep.

The children of northern Uganda, the real 'commuters' walk for their lives every single day. Adrian and Kieran are walking to tell their story.

Read the blog and learn more.

Comments

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

How "Happy" would I be to walk 10km before bed? Probably not that much, but I do almost walk that much every morning after I wake up though... And I would be happy if I got 5 hours of sleep. ;-(

But ignoring the banner and looking at the details, that is pretty sad what those kids have to do.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe a new father is not the target audience of that message. :)

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first few months were a bit of a full-body workout at unpleasant hours :-)

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

I think I have lost about 5 pounds since the boy was born. This is the first time in a while I have been under 190.