Its now official. The launch of StAY Alives premier fundraising event Operation 25 happened amid applause and great enthusiasm as earlier planned. With a meek target of registering at least 30 walkers from the St Andrews Church (outside StAY Alive membership) the Lord came through with a confirmation that the wider St Andrews Community has embraced the walk concept. The concept doubles up as a fellowship/gettogether for the St Andrews folks and also as a fundraiser for St Alives anti-drugs campaign - KATAA.
Why a confirmation? On launch date we registered a staggering 102 walkers, more than three times the target. At the point of this posting, 176 cards had been distributed with 140 of them having been returned as registered... and still counting.
The plans going forward were articulated by the planning team as:
- all StAY Alive members will be expected to register as walkers.
- all StAY Alive members will further be expected to register at least another three walkers
- members of the KATAA secretariat and officials of StAY Alive will be expected to register at least ten walkers
The target was to register at least 210 walkers and with the enthusiastic response we are well within this target more than two months before walk day.
To register one requires to commit to paying a fee of 1,000/-. One is issued with a card to assist in raising funds for the KATAA Initiative. Whereas registration is 1,000/- walkers are encouraged raise even more funds to the noble initiative.
All registered and paid up walkers will begin receiving the walk tshirts at least two weeks to the walk date.
The planning team will be giving regular updates on registration status, route, funds collected among others.
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