60,000 steps: supporting Ukraine

Let's walk to peace. The Portuguese Way of Saint James has set up a fundraising campaign (which you can find here) to support Razom -the association that knows the terrain best and to whom the money will be best distributed - in order to help refugees from Ukraine fleeing the terror of war.

To support Ukraine, we need your help.

In this group we are all pilgrims. We know what it's like to put our feet on the ground and walk with a purpose. It can be for faith, for self-knowledge, or simply for sport. But there are also those who do it to survive. In Ukraine, at least 1 million people have managed to escape the armed conflict. The number is growing every day. They do so with the echoes of bullets and the sights of destroyed buildings behind them.

You can help these people today. There are 60,000 of us in this group. Every euro is a step towards peace - and 60,000 steps is a long way. From Barcelos to Ponte de Lima. From Mos to Pontevedra.

To help with this walk, the Portuguese Camino de Santiago is helping Razom - which means together in Ukrainian. We chose this association because since 2014 it has been on the ground working to build a free and democratic Ukrainian society. The organization has achieved very interesting results, especially in the creation of documents that explain the crisis in the region and help us to better understand the situation, with concrete action plans.

We're not alone in this appeal, several organizations have already made it in relation to this institution. For example, the Washington Post and ABCnews.

But they need our help to continue in this time of great difficulty. Step by step we will reach peace.