The AIDS pandemic has ravaged sub-Saharan Africa, leaving over 13 million orphans. There are an estimated 500,000 orphans in Kenya. Michael Farley was so overwhelmed by these statistics that he focused in on the 110 orphans he knows in the village of Makindu, where he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the 1970s. Farley has organized and led two Proper Walks (‘02 and ‘04) in Northern Kenya to raise money for the Makindu Children’s Program and to raise the awareness of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
In August 2004, Michael Farley, along with Winnie Barron, Diana Barron, Jeff James, Steve Randolph, Tim Cahill (National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine) and others walked 250Km through the Ndoto Mountains, up the Milgis River Basin to the Laikiapia Plains in the Northern Frontier Country of Kenya to honor the Children of Makindu. The Walk took ten days.
Tim Cahill’s article on the 2004 Walk, A Proper Walk Through The Kenyan Bush, appeared in the September 2005 issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine. You can view it online here (PDF format.) Click here for more about Tim.
The 2006 walk was also a great success. For an in-depth report from one of our walkers, see properwalk.com. You can also go straight to the pictures on that site.
Here are journal entries from the first two walks, which together have raised over $84,000 for the Makindu Children's Program!
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