Picture: Valerie O’Sullivan
AN adventure walk that will allow participants to experience the beauty of a sunset on Strickeen will also be an important fundraiser for a very worthy cause.
Killarney Walking Festival’s charity walk, on Friday, June 9, will be in aid of the Kerry Parents and Friends Association’s Buy A Bus campaign.
It is the initiative of Agnes Rooney is the full-time carer for her sister, Mairead, since their mother’s passing in 2015.
Mairead has Down’s syndrome and has been helped by the Kerry Parents and Friends decades so Agnes is anxious to do something in return.
She is spearheading the campaign to raise €60,000 to purchase a wheelchair-accessible bus for the charity with the current fleet of 17 buses deteriorating with no funding for replacements.
“These buses take Mairead and her friends to work, back home, to hospital appointments, for social training and for respite and holidays,” said Agnes.
“They travel all over Kerry and they support service users and their families in ways that the greater community may not understand,” she added.
The charity walk will depart from Kate Kearney’s Cottage at the entrance to the Gap of Dunloe at 7.30pm.
The Buy a Bus campaign is also one of the beneficiaries of this year’s Ring of Kerry charity cycle and Agnes is actively seeking cyclists to register for the Buy a Bus cause.
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