GuluWalk2008!

On Saturday, October 25, at 11am, my GuluWalk team is walking for the children of northern Uganda -- and I need your help. If you do not know what GuluWalk is, I have included information below.

To join our team, visit: http://my.e2rm.com/TeamPage.aspx?Lang=en-CA&TSID=209575

From our Team Page, click on the Join My Team button to register and help us fundraise. If you can't join us, you can still support our team by making a donation online.

GuluWalk is a worldwide movement for peace in northern Uganda. By walking together, our footsteps and our voices will resonate for an end to Uganda's 22-year war.

In the midst of the country's 22-year conflict, over 1.7 million people have been displaced from their homes. These innocent victims of the war, the majority women and children, have been forced into abhorrent conditions in camps where huts are packed tightly together, access to clean water is limited, and disease and violence are rampant. On top of this, more than 25,000 children have been abducted and forced to become slaves or soldiers in the conflict.

The people of northern Uganda long for peace. Despite this, more than 1 million civilians remain trapped in squalid internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, with limited access to clean water and with the daily reality of violence and disease. These people want to return home. Until there is the promise of safety and livelihood in their former villages, they cannot. Their lives are on hold.

So we will walk for them. We will walk until the war is over. We will walk until there is peace. We will walk until the displaced are safe to return home and until their villages are rebuilt.

GuluWalk is dedicated to providing a future for these children. I am walking to tell their story and to fundraise in support of GuluWalk programs that focus on education, rehabilitation and outreach for Uganda's war-affected youth. That's why I need your help.

GuluWalk provides more than just hope. Money raised goes directly to on-the-ground projects in Uganda that offer education and rehabilitation to the country's war-affected youth. To date, GuluWalkers have raised more than $1-million.

Visit www.guluwalk.com for more information.

Thank you in advance for your support!
.Sean Nicolle