This year, we are supporting CAFOD in their life-saving mission to stamp out hunger. Please see the bottom of this page to see how each class are achieving their walking goal.
You can donate using our link:
https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/st-edwards-linthorpe
Why are we walking?
You’ll be helping children like Lombeh
Lombeh, the third child of Amie and Borbor, was malnourished. She was so tiny that a bracelet her mother Amie bought for her at the time now fits round her thumb. Amie and Borbor left no stone unturned to find help, but to no avail. Amie saw a group of new mothers coming along the road, their babies all healthy, and asked where they had come from. They told her about the Sisters who ran a local CAFOD-funded healthcare clinic. Amie went straight there. Even though they feared there was no hope for little Lombeh, they gave her benny mix – a local weaning food. With the advice and support from Sister Anthonia and the other sisters, Lombeh immediately began to improve. Now, aged five, Lombeh is a lively and energetic little girl, who can’t believe the stories her mother tells her about when she was a baby.
Now, Amie is teaching other new mums in her local community how to make the baby food and together, they are giving hunger its marching orders.
What’s the solution?
£12 can buy the ingredients to make the highly nutritious sesame seed paste that helped Lombeh grow big and strong
Supported by donations to CAFOD, the Sisters in Lombeh and Amie’s community are also running cooking classes, holding outreach clinics, building greenhouses and funding seeds and training for farmers – all to stomp out hunger.
But there are 200 million children in the world like Lombeh whose lives are at risk from malnutrition right now.
This Lent, walk with us so that everyone can live their lives free from hunger.
Every £1,000 raised through Walk against Hunger can build a climate-resistant greenhouse in a remote community facing the worst of the climate crisis, and can teach local school children how to grow highly nutritious, healthy vegetables all year round.
Please see information from your child’s class – and our social media page – but a brief overview of how each class is walking can be found below:
