Gulu Walk

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  Each night, over 40,000 children in rural Uganda walk as many as 12 kilometres to urban centres such as the town of Gulu, just to sleep in relative safety and to avoid abduction. Yet no one seems to notice.

  That's where GuluWalk comes in.

  For the entire month of July, Adrian Bradbury and Kieran Hayward, the organizers of GuluWalk are walking 12.5 kilometres into downtown Toronto each night. The pair, who refer to themselves as "average Canadians," spend the night on the street and then walk back home in the morning. And then they head to work. The goal of the walk is twofold: to show support for the children and to get signatures on a petition asking the Canadian government to push the issue on the international stage.

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