Postville and Makkovik will be doing a joint HOPE Walk on April 12-13. This walk is a walk for life. HOPE stands for Hold–On–Pain-Ends.
Vyann Andersen-Goudie is the Mental Health Worker at the DHSD in Postville.
She says so far, there are 6 participants for this walk and will be meeting up between the two communities, which are approximately 25 km outside of each community.
We also contacted Ashley Andersen from Makkovik.
She says there will be 13 adults and 8 Children joining from Makkovik.
The group will camp out for the night and will be having activities such as campfire stories and games.
For those not interested in camping out, community members are welcome to join the group for the evening and then meet back up again the next morning.
After a night in tent, the walkers will start the walk back to their community.
Participants are challenged to walk as far as they can; whether 1 km, 5 km, 10 km’s or the whole way.
She also says that there will be drivers along the route for those that want to get a ride back home or need some water.
For more information or to sign up, please contact Ashley Andersen in Makkovik at 923-2340 or Vyann Andersen in Postville at 479-9878.