Oxfam Trailwalker

We did it, thanks to help from lots of friends and family!

Here are photos of the start of the walk, dawn, dusk and the morning after (when we finished). The final photo is of our support team, without whom we would not have finished!

We completed the 103-KM track in under 30 hours, and we raised $4347 - more than twice our original goal. Thanks to the following friends and family members who donated (in addition to several anonymous donations):

Angela An, Christian and Jennifer Bolanos, Gina Bonifacino, Victoria Dew, Nina Dillon, Andy Evans, Anne Marie Healey (Mom), David Healey and family, Susan Welch (sister) and family, Joe Healey and family, Mark Healey and family, Evan and Jenny Haas, Josh Hall and Joanna Kind, Jennifer Jansen (in Australia), Katie Kaku, Robert Mann-Thompson, Caryn Muellerleile, Ernesto Muñoz(in Ecuador), Enrique Paulin, Andrea Salzburg, Fatai Shieh, Jeremy Shuman, Tricia Gorland Siaso, Phillippa Smith, Bruce Taylor, Lola Toppin, Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club (neighborhood bar in Washington DC), Jessie Watrous, Ryan Wells, and Anita Williams.

To give an idea of what your donations may have accomplished for people in need:

(1) nutritional meals for 21,735 children (at $1 per group of 5 children)
(2) 725 chickens (at $6 each)
(3) 869 ducks (at $5 each)
(4) 4,347 planted trees (at $1 each)
(5) safe water for 2,717 people (at $1.60 per person)

Thanks for being a part of this fundraiser!

Oxfam Trailwalker - The "Sockranos" Team

On April 5-6, three colleagues of mine will join me on a 100-km (62 mile) walk to raise funds for Oxfam to help overcome poverty and injustice. Our team, The Sockranos, must complete the full walk in under 36 hours and we must raise a minimum of $2000 (not including the $625 entry fee and expenses for the weekend that will come out of our pockets).

If you are interested in learning more, check out the event website.

If you would like to donate to our team (with a credit card), please, please, please click here. 10-20 cents per kilometer can go a long way. To give you some indication your money will buy:

• $10 - nutritional meals for 50 children
• $12 - a pair of chickens
• $15 - three ducks
• $25 - will plant 25 trees
• $80 - will provide safe water for 50 people

Note: These are based on New Zealand dollars, and the U.S. Dollar is doing well against the New Zealand dollar ($1 NZD = $0.78 USD). So, a $25 NZD donation is actually just under $20 USD.