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Register for Walk A Mile in Their Shoes
Walk A Mile in Their Shoes is an annual fundraising event for people of all ages, gender identities and abilities to increase awareness of the impacts of gender-based violence, while raising much-needed funds to support YWCA Cambridge’s GBV prevention work.
We’re on a mission to not only end gender-based violence, but prevent it before it can happen. That’s why we work tirelessly to provide free, community-based violence prevention programming to youth across Cambridge, North Dumfries and beyond.
Mark your calendars and walk in solidarity with survivors of violence. Together we have the ability to make our community a safer space for all and put an end to gender-based violence.
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Take Back The Night
Take Back the Night is an annual event held in communities locally and around the world. It is a powerful opportunity to celebrate, support and recognize survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. It connects our community with organizations who support survivors and work toward ending gender based violence. This event is a part of YWCA Cambridge’s advocacy and commitment to equity, the elimination of gender-based violence and the creation of safer communities for all. Join us on September 21, 2023 at 6:30pm in reclaiming our right to walk the streets free from the fear of violence and come together in this youth-led rally and march in resistance.
For more information, please visit our Facebook event page
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Why We Walk
Every day, women, girls and gender-diverse individuals face violence – in their homes, on the streets, in public places and in private. Worse, the severity of the violence rose during the pandemic and still hasn’t come back down. In fact, there were 30 femicides in 30 weeks from November 26 to June 30 of this year, according to Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH)
At YWCA Cambridge, we’re on a mission to not only end gender-based violence, but prevent it before it can happen. That’s why we work tirelessly to provide free, community-based violence prevention programming to youth across Cambridge, North Dumfries and beyond.
However, demand continues to outpace our capacity to deliver programming and our waitlists keep growing.
We rely on the support of people like you to continue this work and this year, we’re hoping to raise enough funds to expand it and eliminate the long waitlists. So please join us this year – gather your friends, families and colleagues and register as a fundraising team. Help us to amplify the calls to end gender-based violence and raise vital funds to support local prevention efforts!
Our community is struggling but YOU can help.
Together, we will make a difference
Let’s Walk together again, Cambridge!
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Sponsor the Walk
Now, more than ever, people are looking to the business world to identify and align with causes that create real change and make our society a better place in which to live. By sponsoring Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, your company demonstrates its commitment to ending gender-based violence.
Event sponsorship provides a meaningful and memorable way to engage your staff and contributes to a community that’s free of hate and violence.
If your team would like to work with us to raise your profile in the community, create a unique employee team building event or chat about creating a corporate partnership that meets your marketing objectives, please contact Nataleigh Ballantyne at n.ballantyne@ywcacambridge.ca
Christine and Chris Vigna
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“We want to ensure that our kids understand that it’s important to give back to a community and to help build a stronger community.”
Darryl Law
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“I participate in Walk a Mile every year because I know it’s one small thing I can do to encourage fellow men and boys to acknowledge the existence of gender-based violence and to take responsibility for the role each of us has in standing up against it.”
Chief Larkin
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“[Walk a Mile in Her Shoes] promotes equality, within our community, within our society.”
Kevin Sinclair
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“The work that is done at YWCA Cambridge continues to inspire me. I’ve walked for years because I believe in an equal and safe Cambridge for all.”