Welcome to Charity Walk
Through the assistance of Apex Australia, a charity walk is being organised that will involve a group of people attempting to walk from Canberra to Sydney. This walk will start on the 8th of March leaving Canberra, and will travel via Wollongong on the way to Sydney which should be reached by the 16th of March.
Purpose Behind This Walk
To help build a Livelihood Centre for poor people that currently live in and around the rubbish dumps in Cebu, Philippines.
An Australian charity called Bethlehem Communities Australia (BCA) is already building a village that will provide housing for up to 2500 people who currently live and scavenge on the rubbish dump. But simply giving people housing to live in does not fully solve the problem for people who have only ever scavenged from day to day to survive. People need life and working skills so as to be independent and able to provide for themselves. They have given us a project to help build a three story livelihood centre for the village which will help teach the people living, working, and community skills that will allow them to be self-sufficient and not have to rely on scavenging to live.
The building will be completed in 3 stages with each stage costing around $25,000 AUD to complete. Hence it is proposed that Apex will look to raise $25,000 as an initial target (more if possible of course), and then a tangible building and community outcome will be achieved rather then simply donating money to BCA. If this walk does not raise that amount, then it will simply become an ongoing project of Apex.
