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The Great African Welly Walk
This autumn term Farm Africa is inviting primary school children across the UK to get their wellies on for a huge sponsored welly walk to help farmers in Africa give hunger the boot.
Taking part in Farm Africa’s Great African Welly Walk couldn’t be easier with no plane tickets or passports required! No walk is too short – schools can march around their playground, trek across school fields or go on a cross-country stroll.
Teachers and pupils can track their school’s welly miles by going onto the Farm Africa online Welly Miles Tracker, adding the miles they have walked and downloading a personalised certificate. And with more schools taking part in the Great African Welly Walk every year, Farm Africa has big ambitions that the total number of welly miles covered will be the equivalent of walking the entire coast of Africa, that’s 16,000 miles!
To help pupils learn more about food, farming and Africa whilst they fundraise, Farm Africa has created a range of engaging classroom resources which are available to download from the Farm Africa website at www.farmafrica.org/wellywalk. The pack includes a range of lesson plans linked to the National Curriculum, a colourful poster containing a map of Africa with fascinating facts about the continent, thought-provoking real life stories about African farmers, and lots of fundraising ideas. It’s all free to use and perfect for teaching children topics such as “Africa” or “farming”. Farm Africa is a leading UK charity that provides smallholder farmers in eastern Africa with the skills, tools and training they need to grow a better, more secure future for their families.
All the money raised from the Great African Welly Walk will go towards Farm Africa’s annual Give Hunger the Boot campaign, which brings together schools across the UK to help tackle one of the world’s most pressing problems hunger.
For more information on how schools can help African farmers Great African Well Walk please visit www.farmafrica.org/wellywalk. Or you can contact a member of Farm Africa’s Community Fundraising Team for more details and to order a fundraising pack: E community@farmafrica.org , T.020 7430 0440.