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.
Take Back The Night
For more information, please visit our Facebook event page
Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
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!
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