Young Friends highlight refugee crisis
Young Quakers will walk from Penrith to Carlisle to raise money for relief in refugee camps
Young Friends from Penrith Meeting will walk from Penrith to Carlisle to raise money for relief in refugee camps.
The twenty-three-mile-long walk takes place on 22 November. Participants will raise money for the Carlisle One World Centre which, through an initiative called Calais Action Carlisle, will support refugees over the coming winter.
The money raised will help cover the cost of transporting donated tents and sleeping bags to the camps and to support the volunteers going there to help.
Young Friends Rosalind Weir, Sophie Austin and Jamie Hartley said: ‘Our walk is only a fraction of the walk undertaken by the refugees, but as we travel we hope to reflect on their current plight, and that our hard work can make a small difference.’
The walkers will take The Miller’s Way, which was created as a tribute to nineteenth-century Quaker Jonathan Dodgson Carr, who walked from Kendal to Carlisle in 1831.
