Events
Here you'll find information and updates on fundraising campaigns, relief expeditions, and other events that advance our goals and fulfill our mission to bring help and hope to humanity's forgotten children.
Coming in 2009 . . .
The Camino de Santiago
We're planning an expedition to travel the pilgrim trail of the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. This trail is a 600 mile foot-path that leads from the border of France to the tomb of the Apostle St. James on the northwest coast of Spain. This is no pleasure hike or tourist opportunity.
This expedition is intended to be the ground-breaking for a program intended to teach life skills to children from the streets and orphanages of Romania. This will be the first of many pilgrimages. On the first expedition, BlindFocus.org founder and CEO Cheri Anderson will be traveling the pilgrim trail alone in spite of her visual impairments, taking forty days to make the journey. Forty days is the same number of days Jesus spent in the wilderness as recorded in the New Testament. Taking on this "almost impossible" journey will give her a better understanding of the daily challenges the street children of Romania must face every day.
Along the trail of this 1,600,000 step journey, she'll be writing a manual on basic life skills which she'll later revise with the help of a Child Psychologist, a Doctor of Education, and a Doctor of Theology. This manual will be used by the Romanian children on future pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago. The goal is to teach the children basic life skills, self respect, self discipline, relationship skills, and strong Christian values, that they may return to Romania with a strong sense of self and restored hope: equipped for a better future.
Be sure to check back for a regular blog that will be posted to document each pilgrimage.
Visit the following link to find out more about the Camino de Santiago here: http://www.caminodesantiago.me.uk/
Also, be sure to check back regularly for information on future events.
Coming in 2009 . .
The Camino de Santiago
We're planning an expedition to travel the pilgrim trail of the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. This trail is a 600 mile foot-path that leads from the border of France to the tomb of the Apostle St. James on the northwest coast of Spain. This is no pleasure hike or tourist opportunity.
This expedition is intended to be the ground-breaking for a program intended to teach life skills to children from the streets and orphanages of Romania. This will be the first of many pilgrimages. On the first expedition, BlindFocus.org founder and CEO Cheri Anderson will be traveling the pilgrim trail alone in spite of her visual impairments, taking forty days to make the journey. Forty days is the same number of days Jesus spent in the wilderness as recorded in the New Testament. Taking on this "almost impossible" journey will give her a better understanding of the daily challenges the street children of Romania must face every day.
Along the trail she'll be writing a manual on basic life skills which she'll later revise with the help of a Child Psychologist, a Doctor of Education, and a Doctor of Theology. This manual will be used by the Romanian children on future pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago. The goal is to teach the children basic life skills, self respect, self discipline, relationship skills, and strong Christian values, that they may return to Romania with a strong sense of self and restored hope: equipped for a better future.
Be sure to check back for a regular blog that will be posted to document each pilgrimage.
Visit the following link to find out more about the Camino de Santiago here: http://www.caminodesantiago.me.uk/
Also, be sure to check back regularly for information on future events.
