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CfR is to be a beneficiary of Angie & Koloman Simek's Walk for Reconciliation this July.
The walk has been completed.
Thank you ANgie & Koloman
Day 1 (Monday 30th June)-
Angie & Koloman walked from Barnes Close along the North Worcestershire Path to Kinver, 16 miles.
Day 2 & 3 (Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd July) - Angie & Koloman, awalked from Kinver to Great Haywood Junction along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towpath, 36 miles
Day 4 & 5 (Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th July) - Angie & Koloman walked from Great Haywood Junction to Macclesfield along the Trent & Mersey and Macclesfield Canal towpaths, 39 miles
Day 6 (Saturday 5th July) - Angie & Koloman walked from Macclesfield to Edale, along the Macclesfield Canal towpath, the Gritstone Trail and other paths, 21 miles
Day 7 (Sunday 6th July) - Rest Day - no walking!
Day 8 to Day 13 (Monday 7th to Saturday 12th July) - Angie & Koloman walked from Edale to Malham, along the Pennine Way, 80 miles
Day 14 (Sunday 13th July) - Rest Day - No Walking!
Day 15 to Day 20 (Monday 14th to Saturday 19th July) - Angie & Koloman walked from Malham to Dufton along the Pennine Way, 84 miles
Day 21 (Sunday 20th July) - Rest Day - No Walking!
Day 22 to Day 27 (Monday 21st to Saturday 28th July) - Angie & Koloman walked from Dufton to Bryness along the Pennine Way, 76 miles
Day 28 (Sunday 27th July) - Rest Day - No Walking!
Day 29 & Day 30 (Monday 28th & Tuesday 29th July) - Angie & Koloman walked from Bryness to Kirk Yetholm along the Pennine Way, 29 miles
Day 31& Day 32 Wednesday 30th & Thursday 31st July
- Walking the St Cuthbert's Way from Kirk Yetholm to Lindisfarne, 29 miles
So far we have received around £2000 in sponsorship and donations.
Please can you ensure that your money reaches us by the 20th August. Thank you
THE VENTURE
Reconciliation is not a word that trips lightly off the tongue these days, and yet our world is calling out for it ever more. There is so much we need to reconcile ourselves to, so many tensions calling for reconciliation:
- between the poor and the rich
- between the old and the young
- between the sick or disabled and the able bodied
- between different cultures and religions
- between different Christian churches
- within families
- within societies
- within my relationship to God
- with people around me
- with myself and the way I live my life.
On reaching the age of 50 Angie decided it would be a good time to take measure of some of these issues, and time to look for a good way to celebrate.
It was this search that led Angie and her eldest son, Koloman,(18) to plan a sponsored walk deliberately as a “Walk for Reconciliation”. By walking the 400 miles from Angie's birthplace in Rubery, Worcestershire to Holy Island/Lindisfarne they hope to have plenty of time to think and talk to people en route as well as using the sponsored distance walked to collect money for the projects chosen which link so many of the above mentioned needs for reconciliation – and their two homes of England and Austria.
Angie & Koloman would like to ask you to sponsor them and thank you for your support in this venture.
THE PROJECTS
There are two projects that will benefit from the walk
STEPS OF HOPE!
SHEEP CREATE HOPE is the name of the project from 2005, the first ever sponsored walk made by young Austrians from the parish where Angie worked as a youth worker. It meant that 500 sheep could be bought to enable families left destitute by the war in Bosnia to have a subsistence again. The project involved a close co-operation between the local communities and peace-keeping EUFOR soldiers which led to significant reconciliation initiatives and supported the peace-keeping programme.
STEPS OF HOPE! is the meaningful name for this year´s project which aims to collect money towards building a therapy centre for disabled people in Tuzla/Bosnia. “Nobody cares about the handicapped here,” says Annemarie Kury, “yet if we can help people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities early enough, the possibilities for them to enjoy a more normal life are wide open. The idea of linking such a long hike with helping young people to move more freely is wonderful.”
LORANTFFY ZSUZSANNA HIGH SCHOOL
Like all church schools the LZHS was requisitioned by the state during the communist era in Romania. Although the law to return confiscated property and land to their rightful owners was passed some time ago progress is slow. Prior to its return the state removed most fittings, including central heating, chalkboards and toilets, as the law only referred to buildings and not fittings. The school is slowly bringing the building up to a modern standards.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If you are interested in sponsoring Angie & Koloman, please contact Barnes Close and sign the sponsorship list, giving your name, e-mail address, telephone numberr. and how much you would like to sponsor Angie & Koloman for.
If they manage the whole walk of 400 miles, then you would be sponsoring
at 1p per mile: £ 4.00
at 5 p per mile: £ 20.00
at 10 p per mile: £ 40.00 for the project.
At the same time you can invite other friends to support this project.
After the walk (beginning on June 29th 2008 with the arrival on Holy Island planned for July 31st) you will receive news about how many miles they actually managed. It is by no means certain on a walk of this length that they will actually make it to the destination…. despite training for it!
For organisational reasons we ask you to collect the money which has been sponsored and foward it to The Community for Reconciliation, Barnes Close, Chadwich, Bromsgrove B61 0RA. Cheque should be made out to ‘Community for Reconciliation’ to The money will automatically go to the LORANTFFY ZSUZSANNA HIGH SCHOOL project of the COMMUNITY FOR RECONCILIATION.
If you would expressly like to support the other project, then we ask you to indicate this.
GET MOVING – GET SPONSORING - AND HELP OTHERS, TOO !
Thank you for your help
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