Countdown on for annual Offaly Camino Canal Way Charity Walk

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 year as they celebrate their 6th Annual Offaly Camino Canal Way Charity Walk on which starts at the Fiona Pender Memorial along the Tullamore Canal Way at 9am on St Brigid's Day Bank Holiday weekend on Sunday, February 5 for the Irish charity Self Help Africa and organisers have plenty of sponsorship cards to give out to anybody who would like to join in and walk a few miles for charity from Tullamore to the famous Croghan Hill.

If you require a sponsorship card please do get in contact at www.selfhelpafrica.org or at ronan.scully@selfhelpafrica.org To register for the event go to https://selfhelpafrica. org/ie/offaly-camino-canal-way-walk/

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 we thank local sponsors for this. After the walk there will be a special Mass at 2pm on Croghan hill for everyone and anyone and a berbecue 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 walkers take the voyage along the canal there will be water/snack stops at Ballycommon and Daingean and people can join at any point along the way as walkers make their 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).

All donations on the day of the event will be gratefully received and will go directly to the charity. Self Help Africa is dedicated to ending hunger and poverty in rural Africa especially in East Africa in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia where some 36 million people are hungry and thirsty at this time.

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.

You can 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 086 6778807, Aislinn Molloy 087 0688530, Ricey Scully 086 8153047, Paul Galvin 087 8375407, Nora Kavanagh, 087 9945964, Mark Plunkett on 083 0459377, Dave Kavanagh on 083 3720950, Vanessa Shortall on 087 7936794 or Tracey Dooley on 087 9557160 to receive your sponsorship card or to make a donation to find out further information about this event. 

Also if any company or business or individual wants to offer sponsorship the organisers are looking for people or companies to sponsor one of the KM’s of the 20Km walk and organisers will dedicate that KM to the sponsor with signage and info about them.

The walk will maintain a pace which is suitable to people of all levels of fitness. Also if anyone would like to sponsor a kilometre of the 20Km walk we will be more than welcome. 

Please see details about the Offaly Camino Canal Way Walk Challenge 2023 and further details about the charities work on www.selfhelpafrica.org 

You can also contact Ronan Scully on (087) 6189094, visit www.selfhelpafrica.org or email ronan.scully@selfhelpafrica.org