The Gulu walk is a community event to show how children in Uganda moved en mass to another country at night to avoid being conscripted into a children's army. A former teacher at this Gwangju Foreign school organized the first walk in this country several years ago, and he has left quite a legacy. I'm sure this event could expand if consistant effort is put into it every year.
There is a video on youtube called comastate showing what the students did at the end of their first gulu walk.
The walk is becoming an International event, and has spread from Canada where the idea originated.
I'm sure a lot of good causes could get marches and community support if a few individuals were willing to do a little ground work the way the individuals did for the Gulu Walk.
All it needs now is a catchy song to go with it.
2 comments:
There was something on this post about a teacher at Gwangju foreign school writing a song for the Gulu walk. Might be a good idea.
Interesting to see how two Canadians got the "Gulu Walk " going. They had just come home from Uganda, and seen the plight of the children in that country. They decided to walk from some point in a city to some where else, advertising what they had seen in Uganda. I don't know how many times they had to walk to get the message across, but they did it anyway. The walk has now spread to volunters doing a similar walk in October all over the world.
Some one in Korea should start a walk for the unification of North Korea and South Korea.
When the time comes for such walks many in the general public have their awareness raised, and would be happy to join in. Of course they more high profile such events become then the more people there are who would like to participate.
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