Nearly 3,000 people participated in the Aga Khan Foundation’s Partnership Walk to end global poverty Sept. 19, at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. Now in its 16th year, the event is held annually in major cities across the U.S.
The Chicago walk raised more than $400,000 according to a press release. According to the foundation, all funds go directly to projects.
Given the unprecedented floods crisis in the past month, 50 percent of the funds raised at 2010 Partnership Walk will go to support the victims of floods in Pakistan and surrounding areas and the rest to poverty alleviation projects supported by Aga Khan Foundation in Africa and Asia. Since 1995, the organization said it has raised $36 million through these walks.
via News India Times – Aga Khan Foundation Walk to End Global Poverty.
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