Southern View: July 16, 2019

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Almost $2000 raised in walking fundraiser
• By Jess Gibson
NINE-YEAR-OLD Olive
Harris of Lyttelton will go to
great lengths to help those in
need.
The year 5 St Mark’s student
came up with the idea to walk
up to 10km to fundraise for
children in Uganda who do the
same on an empty stomach every
day.
Walk With a Purpose saw
more than 70 of Olive’s fellow
pupils and their parents get
behind the school’s first official
fundraiser last month.
Almost $2000 which was
raised in cash and through a
givealittle page will be donated
to Fountain of Peace Children’s
Foundation NZ.
The money will go towards
keeping 501 children fed at
Rwenjaza Hillside School in
Uganda.
Olive said she was “really
proud” that so many of her
friends were willing to get on
board.
Families woke up as early as
5.30am to walk from locations
like Mt Pleasant, Halswell and
Cashmere into Opawa in time
for school.
It was Olive’s second year
walking the Stan Helms track
over the Port Hills with her dad,
Tim Harris, and this year she
SUPPORT: One group of pupils from St Mark’s School woke up early and walked up to 10km to
school on June 28 from areas such as Lyttelton, Mt Pleasant and Cashmere.
was joined by her five-year-old
brother, Jake Harris, who is in
year 1.
Last year, Olive and her father
did the walk on their own and
raised more than $500 through
sponsorship which was donated
to WaterAid projects.
Volunteer co-ordinator of
Fountain of Peace, Tania Sharr,
is the mother of two pupils at St
Mark’s and helped to organise
the fundraiser with Olive and
her mum, Lottie Harris.
Mrs Sharr said she was blown
away by the school’s response.
“I get quite tearful thinking
about it. It really makes you
realise that the world is a big
community. Even though the
students in Uganda are a long
way away it means a lot to them,”
she said.
Fountain of Peace was
established in New Zealand in
2012.
Its aim is to create familybased
homes for orphaned
and abandoned children
in rural Uganda, as well as
working to provide clean water,
education, health care and
sustainable projects for the whole
community.
•If you wish to donate to
Walk With a Purpose visit:
https://givealittle.co.nz/
cause/saint-marks-walkwith-purpose
BIG WALK: Tim, Olive and
Jake Harris with teacher
Emily Wells who joined the
Lyttelton family for part of
a 10km walk which raised
funds for children in Uganda.
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