Dubai: Group of friends walk 60km to help build school in Africa

Dubai: Group of friends walk 60km to help build school in Africa

What started off as a company project run by just four people kept going even after many of them moved jobs and countries

Published: Wed 28 Sep 2022, 7:05 AM

A group of over five dozen people braved the heat and humidity of Dubai to walk for 60 kilometres across Dubai to raise funds to build a school in Africa. The group were joined by over 200 other international participants who completed similar 60km walks in their hometowns of New York, Canada, Poland and Mexico in solidarity for their mission.

This is the eighth year that the group of friends are doing this walk. “We have built seven schools across Africa, Nicaragua and Haiti and one house for the homeless in Mexico since we began in 2014,” said Linoy Kidd, whose brainchild the project is. “Over 2500 children study in the schools we have built in Malawi, Senegal, Haiti and Nicaragua.

What started off as a company project run by just four people kept going even after many of them moved jobs and countries. Now christened Infusion100, the group continues to raise funds globally throughout the year to help in the running of the schools they have built and to keep building schools in