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24 hr Charity Walk for Disabled American Veterans and Iraqi Children
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FREE
Berkeley Woman Walks for 24 hours Non-Stop to Benefit
Disabled American VETERANS and Iraqi CHILDREN
ACCOMPANY ME**! DONATE*! MEET NEW FRIENDS! DISCOVER NEW PARTS OF THE BEAUTIFUL BAY AREA! HAVE FUN!
START: Saturday Jan 21st at 1:15 pm (BLESSING of the Walk by Joe Lamb, Founder of the Borneo Project and Berkeley's Sister City Uma Bawang Keluan)
Walk starts at 1:30 pm at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley (1500 Derby St), CA
END: Sunday, Jan 22nd at 2pm, at the Veterans Hospital in San Francisco (4150 Clement St), CA**
The last American soldiers have recently returned home from the Iraq war. To honor the sacrifices made, and to contribute to healing the wounds of American veterans and Iraqi children disabled by the war, Berkeley business woman, teacher and mother-of-two Anushka Drescher has committed to a 24-hr non-stop fundraising walk through the East Bay and San Francisco.
Anushka’s charity walk will take place this weekend January 21-22, from 1:30 pm Saturday to 1:30 pm Sunday. After a short blessing ceremony at 1:15 pm on Saturday in front of Longfellow Middle School, on Derby St** in Berkeley, Anushka will start walking at 1:30 pm, traverse 8 Bay Area Cities (Berkeley, Kensington, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Richmond, Albany, Oakland and San Francisco)** and end at the VA Hospital on Clement Street** in San Francisco at 1:30 pm on Sunday. She will be joined on various parts of the walk by family, friends and supporters.
The walk will pause for a minute of silence at two “Blue Star Memorial Byway” Markers, at Arlington (Veterans) Park in El Cerrito at 4:30 pm and near the El Cerrito City Hall and Police Station at 11 pm. The Blue Star markers are symbols that honor the sacrifice made by men and women in the American military. In San Francisco, the walk will pass through the Presidio, a former military installation turned State Park, and by the Legion of Honor, built to commemorate California soldiers who died in World War I.
Anushka’s goal and birthday wish (she turns 43 on January 23rd) is to raise $5,000, with the average contributor donating $3/hr of walking, or $72. Donations will be collected until February 13th. The total donations will be split evenly, with half going to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund (www.semperfifund.org), benefiting disabled American Veterans, and half going to No More Victims (www.nomorevictims.org), a non-profit organization supporting the recovery of Iraqi children maimed during the war. All proceeds will be passed on to the beneficiary organizations on Valentine’s Day, 2012.
More information about the walk, including Anushka’s estimated time of arrival at various places of interest in the Bay Area, is on Anushka’s Facebook Events page “Woman Who Walks 24 hr Charity Walk 2012” at http://www.facebook.com/events/create/?eid=271811846212058. Text on the events page is reproduced below. Anushka will be reachable by cell phone before, during and after the walk at (510) 684-8407. She can also be tracked during her walk by using the I-phone app “Find Friends”. Send a request to track her progress using the email address adrescher@sbcglobal.net.
ACCOMPANY ME**! DONATE*! MEET NEW FRIENDS!
DISCOVER NEW PARTS OF THE BEAUTIFUL BAY AREA! HAVE FUN!
START: Saturday Jan 21st at 1:15 pm (BLESSING of the Walk by Joe Lamb, Founder of the Borneo Project and Berkeley's Sister City Uma Bawang Keluan)
Walk starts at 1:30 pm at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley (1500 Derby St), CA
END: Sunday, Jan 22nd at 2pm, at the Veterans Hospital in San Francisco (4150 Clement St), CA**
OVERALL FUNDRAISING GOAL: $5,000
INDIVIDUAL DONOR GOAL: give $3/hr of walking for the person you sponsor
(but ANY amount of donation will be GREATLY appreciated!)
YOU are invited to join in the entire walk, or ANY PORTION of the 24-hr walk, and collect donations from friends, family, co-workers and businesses*.
What hours would you like to walk? How much would you like to donate? Leave a Comment!
IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH and HELP OTHERS by WALKING!
Other ways to support the walk: spread the word, invite your friends, tell media contacts, offer your house as a bathroom stop, offer food and/or water to walkers, solicit donations of food and water from businesses, check back to this page for weekly updates.
All donations* will go directly to support American Veterans and Iraqi Children who have been disabled as a result of the war.
50% of total donations collected will be given to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund (http://semperfifund.org/), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit set up to provide immediate financial support for injured and critically ill members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families.
GET SOME FRESH AIR, GET SOME EXERCISE, MEET NEW FRIENDS!
The other 50% will be given to No More Victims (http://www.nomorevictims.org/), a nonprofit, non-sectarian, humanitarian program established to restore health and well-being to victims of war. No More Victims evacuates war-injured Iraqi children to the United States for life-changing medical treatment, and supports Iraqi doctors in performing surgery and providing prosthetic and rehabilitative services to injured Iraqi children.
WALK INTO THE SUNSET, SUNRISE OR BOTH!
*To support the walk with a monetary contribution, please write a check for any amount to “Woman Who Walks 24 hr Charity Walk 2012” and give to Anushka Drescher or mail it to her at 1431 Ward Street, Berkeley, CA 94702. You may also deposit your donation directly at any Wells Fargo Bank or transfer online to the “Woman Who Walks 24 hr Charity Walk 2012” Account # 2196950089. Online donations can also be made through PayPal (http://www.paypal.com) to the account name "Woman Who Walks Charity Walk".
Funds will be collected until February 13th and donated directly to the two beneficiary organizations on Valentine’s Day, 2012.
BUSINESSES can sponsor this event by giving free publicity to this event, and by donating fresh food, raw food products, and creams or other body products that provide physical support and relief to the body-mind of the walkers. Contact Anushka at (510) 684-8407.
** Detailed schedule of the walk is below. The times for each location are approximate. If you want to join the walk at any point, please be there 15 minutes before the time, and expect that we might be arriving up to 15 minutes after the listed time. On the day of the walk, check into facebook where I will be posting updates every hour or so, or use the I-phone app “Find Friends” to track my progress. Use email address adrescher@sbcglobal.net to ask permission to track me on Find Friends.
1:30 pm 1500 Derby St, Berkeley
2 pm MLK Park at Center and Martin Luther King in Berkeley
2:30 pm Beverly Place and Hopkins in Berkeley
3:15 pm Berkeley Park Blvd and Colusa in Kensington
4:30 pm Blue Star Memorial Byway Marker “A Tribute to the Armed Forces of America”, Veterans Memorial Park (Arlington Park), 1120 Arlington Blvd, El Cerrito
5:30 pm Arlington Blvd at Barrett in El Cerrito
6:30 pm Arlington Blvd at McBryde in Richmond
7:30 pm 2853 Arundel Way in San Pablo
8:30 pm 2415 Dover Ave in San Pablo
10 pm 2915 Ohio Ave in Richmond
11 pm Blue Star Memorial Byway Marker “A Tribute to the Armed Forces of America”, San Pablo Ave at Manila St, El Cerrito
11:30 pm 2935 San Mateo St in El Cerrito
1:30 am 1431 Ward St in Berkeley
3 am College Ave at Ashby Ave in Berkeley
4 am Piedmont Ave at Pleasant Valley Ave in Oakland
5 am Broadway at West Grand Ave, Oakland
5:30 am Lake Merritt on El Embarcadero and Lakeshore Ave, Oakland
6 am Trestle Glen and Bates Rd, Oakland
7 am Lake Merritt on Lakeshore Ave at E 18th St, Oakland
8 am 12th St Oakland BART Station above ground
8:20 am - take first BART to EMBARCADERO, SF (WALK on BART! :) )
8:32 am - arrive in SF, Embarcadero Station, SAN FRANCISCO (rest of the walk is in San Francisco)
8:45 am - in front of Ferry Building, Embarcadero, SF
9:45 am - Fort Mason, Beach and Laguna
10:45 am - Gulf of the Farallon's National Marine Sanctuary, Visitor Center, 991 Marine Dr (near the end of Pearce St.)
11:15 am - Golden Gate Bridge Parking Lot, by the bathrooms
12:30 pm - end of 25th Ave, where it connects to the trail going North-East along the seashore
1:30 pm - arrive at the Veterans Medical Center on Clement St at 43rd St
Event Details
| Where | Longfellow Middle School 1500 Derby St, Berkeley, CA 94703 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 1:15 pm–1:30 am |
| Who to bring | College Students, Moms, Dads, Singles, Everyone, Kids, Teens, Families, Seniors |
| Website | http://www.facebook.com/events/271811846212058/ |
| Phone | 510-684-8407 |
| adrescher@sbcglobal.net | |
| Price | $0 |
More About Longfellow Middle School
Longfellow is proud of its rehabbed historic campus, including an auditorium with a state-of-the-art sound system. It has several bands and orchestras open to all students. Kids can compete inter-scholastically in softball, flag football, soccer, basketball and volleyball. The school offers a fee-based after-school enrichment program until 6pm daily with sports, art, food and tutoring by UC Berkeley students. Patricia Saddler is principal.
