World Partnership Walk Fights Global Poverty
Canada’s largest event to fight global poverty kicks off Sunday with a walk in nine cities.
Though the World Partnership Walk is a charity, it doesn’t give handouts to its recipients. Instead, it aims to give skills and trades to people in impoverished countries in Asia and Africa.
A non-profit group called the Aga Khan Foundation Canada operates the walk. It has been involved in international development since 1980, with a mandate to focus on environment, as well as on the status of women.
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Students pound the pavement to fight poverty
Students from several Toronto independent schools are slipping on their sneakers today, at 4:30 p.m., for the World Partnership Mini-Walk.
The larger World Partnership Walk is a national annual event held in nine Canadian cities to support international development and programs that alleviate poverty in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. An initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada, the walk attracts thousands of participants annually and has raised more than $40 million to date.
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