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Holy Week Camino walk in aid of Citywise.Your support is needed.

The Camino, here we come! During Holy Week, Citywiser's Mark, Paul, and Peter are embarking on 125 km pilgrimage walk to Santiago de Compostella together with eight students, all in aid of Citywise.
The Camino is a famous pilgrimage trail to the tomb of St James in Santiago, in the north west of Spain, There are a few distinct trails approaching the city from eastern, northerly and southerly directions, with the approach from the east the best trodden and most famous. For over one thousand years, pilgrims have walked the trail, beginning in the north of Europe, or in Dublin (thus St James gate), or near the Russian steppes.
This fundraising walk is a more prudent undertaking. The group intend to walk for five days to cover the 125 km and gain the pilgrimage indulgence, while raising money for the empty Citywise coffers. The students involved are all Transition Year students in Rockbrook Park School (see www.rockbrook.ie) and they will be accompanied by teacher Jackie Brennan. The group is paying its own way so that all funds raised will go directly towards Citywise programmes in Jobstown and Ballymun. Many of the group, for example, Brian, Conor, Jack, Christopher, James and Aidan have been volunteer leaders with Citywise over the past year.
Well done lads. All you, the reader, need do now is press the donate now button on the ammado website or the Ammado button on the Citywise website (www.citywise.ie) and make your donation to us.
Currently Citywise has sixteen highly disaffected young men, who are under 16 and out of the school system, attending each day studying for their Junior Cert. Citywise Fast Track programmes, which are geared to helping young school attenders in disadvantaged community areas to make it to college, have almost 150 beneficaries and sixty volunteers helping them. Citywise also provides a range of educational and social supports for other young people in west Tallaght, Ballymun, west Belfast and in the Midlands. None of these programmes have statutory funding and so depend primarily on the help of individual or corporate donors. Tax relief is available on donations over €250.

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posted by Citywise on Saturday, 13 March 2010 at 12:11