By YASEMIN TALAT
A GROUP of friends has teamed up to walk 60 kilometres over The Weekend to End Women’s Cancers in March.
With the event around the corner, Debbie Carr from Altona, Louise Nicol from Altona Meadows and Rosalin Pelen of Point Cook, are preparing for the weekend with lots of walking and lots of fund-raising.
“We’ve all been affected by family and friends who have had to endure cancer, and we wanted to support them so we thought this was an ideal way of doing it,” Ms Carr said.
Ms Carr said participating in the event was also a great way to keep healthy by training regularly.
“We’ve been meeting up and walking five to six kilometres and we’ve also been walking by ourselves,” she said.
“We’ve been using the app ‘Map my Walk’ and putting that on Facebook to motivate each other and messaging each other too.”
Dubbing their team Twinkle Toes, the group has been busy hosting a variety of fund-raisers since signing up.
The events have included a shopping tour, food parties, chocolate drives and even fun dares among each other to raise funds.
Ms Nicol said the team worked hard to come up with exciting ways to raise money and were continuously ‘thinking outside the box’.
The next event on the calendar before the big walk is the Twinkle Toes Trivia Night.
It will be held at D’Olive View Estate in Point Cook, tickets are $15 per person or $105 for a table of eight.
All funds raised will be benefiting the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
To donate to the group visit http://ml14.endcancer.org.au/ and search ‘Twinkle Toes’ or for information about the Trivia night call Louise on 0421967736.
