
OTTAWA, June 15th, 2010 – The 26th annual World Partnership Walk organized by Aga Khan Foundation Canada and its national network of volunteers, on Sunday, June 13th, raised just over $200,000 in Ottawa to help fight global poverty. Local organizers of the Walk expressed heartfelt congratulations for an outstanding community effort by more than 1000 participants who came out to be part of the solution to global poverty. The funds they raised (100%) will go entirely toward development projects in some of the poorest areas of Asia and Africa.