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Students at Catholic schools across our diocese, including those at Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove, are taking part in CAFOD’s Big Lent Walk this year.

The Newman students visited St Mary Magdalen Church before walking back to school. Fr Alphonse Kabore, from St Mary Magdalen’s, joined the young people and highlighted the importance of clean water for communities around the world. This week, Newman College students will be “walking for water” in solidarity with those who walk miles each day just to access safe water. So far, Newman students have raised nearly £900. Click here to visit the school’s JustGiving page.

23 Catholic schools in our diocese — the highest number ever — have signed up for CAFOD’s Big Lent Walk this year than ever before and over 760 schools nationwide are taking part in the charity’s annual fundraising challenge, walking 200km over 40 days. Other schools, including St Dunstan’s, Woking, and St George’s Junior School, Weybridge, are doing fun runs in support of CAFOD’s work.

Parish groups and individual parishioners are also joining in the Big Lent Walk, including Thereza from St Dunstan’s Church, Woking, who asks her supporters to “Think about some people who live in a rural community in southern Ethiopia and have to walk for six hours every day to collect clean water.”

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Sources: Cardinal Newman School; CAFOD