Howth to Dun Laoghaire Charity Walk

Posts on Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 19:33and is filed under General.

Well 5 friends set out from Howth on a very very cold Saturday morning for the 26Km walk from Howth to Dun Laoghaire in aid of Save The Children of Eldoret. Its was a great day with a little pit stop on the way for a nice pint of the cold stuff.. mmm

The premis for the walk was an email from my friend Clare
“I watched the Ross Kemp Kenya special on Sky 1 on Monday and was so moved by what I saw that I am just unable to shake it. I am never usually affected by what I see on TV, its just TV and we have all grown up seeing some fairly horrendous imagery between movies and news reports.

There is a part in the show that highlights the street children of Eldoret, who live in a community where all are addicted to glue. When I watched it I just broke down and I just cant seem to get it together since. I was telling Al about it the next morning and burst into tears again. There is a scene in the show, where a toddler falls over and her mother, instead of comforting her, hands her a bottle of glue. Seeing a mother giving glue to her toddler who cant have been any older than two has absolutely broken my heart. and watching a man I assume to be the father of a young girl picking her up from the street where she is lying, too stoned on glue to move…. I have never witnessed anything so moving. Im fairly sure that this has all been sparked by the fact that the little kid was the same age as Anna, but for whatever reason, I still cry now when I think about it.”