Monday, October 22, 2007
Julia Guard walked four miles Saturday evening carrying a sign that read “I walk for peace in Uganda.”
Guard, Lawrence freshman, along with 53 other students and Lawrence residents, participated in the Lawrence Gulu Walk to raise money for the orphaned and abducted children in northern Uganda. Several carried signs and wore orange Gulu Walk T-shirts.
Gulu Walk groups in cities worldwide walked on Saturday to bring attention to the children in northern Uganda who have to walk several miles each night just so they can sleep in safety from the Lord’s Resistance Army. The army, formed in 1987, is a guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government.
Campus group KU for Uganda organized the Gulu Walk in Lawrence. Briana Saunders, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, junior and co-president of KU for Uganda, said the group raised almost $1,200 for the cause. She said several people asked her after the walk how they could get involved.
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It was encouraging to see all the support: people passing by in cars and on the street, honking horns, throwing up peace signs and just generally cheering us on.
-Briana Saunders, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, junior
“It was encouraging to see all the support: people passing by in cars and on the street, honking horns, throwing up peace signs and just generally cheering us on,” Saunders said.
About 25 students from Free State High School’s Social Awareness Club participated in the walk. Robert Halloran, Free State junior, said he walked to teach the community more about the issue.
“The biggest problem is that people don’t know about it,” Halloran said.
Referred to as icons, participants in the Gulu Walk registered on the Web site guluwalk.com. Celebrities such as singer Sarah McLachlan and NBA player Steve Nash participated in the walk in other cities. All participants were responsible for getting their own sponsors, and 75 percent of the proceeds went directly to programs to help the children in northern Uganda. Fifteen percent went to the education and awareness initiative for the Uganda situation, and the remaining 10 percent went to administrative costs for the Gulu Walk program.
This was the third year of the Gulu Walk. It began in July 2005 when two women walked 12 miles to the Toronto City Hall each night for a month. They would sleep for just four hours before walking another 12 miles home. The trend grew from there, and last year Gulu Walks around the world raised more than $500,000.
Lawrence participants marched from the Kansas Union down Jayhawk Boulevard to Naismith Drive, down 19th Street to Massachusetts Street, then up Ninth Street to Mississippi Street, and back to the Kansas Union.
— Edited by Chris Beattie
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