2016 Walk to Niger

We had a wonderful first-time event. Your Walk, Their Water: Destination Niger invited our friends, family, community members, and other like-minded folks to do their part by walking to Niger. How did they accomplish such a task? Teams of 15-20 split the miles between themselves and counted their steps for 2 months to symbolically walk from Moline, IL to Niamey, Niger – about 300 miles each in 2 months.

Barb Marlin (Church Nurse) of Faith Lutheran church came up with this idea several years ago to help the people in her church stay healthy. She started walking to a different country in need every year. This year she decided to walk to Niger, Africa with her team of more than 49 dedicated individuals. Barb helped us to make this happen. We had fun and raised over $30,000!

Thank you Barb for sharing this marvelous idea with us!

 

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