A sponsored walk by pupils of a historic school in west Cork has raised more than €300 for Christian Aid Ireland and highlighted the impact of climate change on some of the world’s poorest people.
Children at the Model School in Dunmanway walked around the grounds of their school for 5 kms while carrying a basin or bucket, symbolising the long journeys made by women and girls in drought–affected regions, in search of water.
Their walk was inspired by Rose Jonathan (68), a widowed grandmother from the Kitui
region of eastern Kenya where severe drought and a changing climate mean…
