Students plan holidays trek to help those less fortunate

06 Oct 2012

By The Record

Perin Faulkner, left, and Mia Krasenstein. Both are aged 16 and both are doing the Cape to Cape walk.

Ten Western Australian students will spend their school holidays walking 135km; while most students will be enjoying their time off, students from Dunsbrorough, Busselton, Perth and other local towns have decided to take action against the misfortune of others.

16-year-old Mia Krasenstein, a regular fundraiser for Caritas Australia, together with her friends will begin the walk from Cape Leeuwin lighthouse early on Tuesday 2 October. The walk is expected to take a week, finishing on October 8 at Cape Naturaliste.

“At first we were just going to do it as a challenge but then I thought ‘why walk over 100km for nothing?” Miss Krasenstein said.

“There are people all over the world who are confronted with injustice every day. This is the least we can do.”

The Cape to Cape team will be supported by their parents who will meet them at camping grounds daily and supply them with the basic necessitates; food, water and fresh clothes, when they stop overnight at Conto, Prevelly, Gracetown, Moses Rock and Yallingup.

All funds raised by the walk will be donated to Caritas Australia, which delivers emergency responses and long term development programs to some of the poorest communities in more than 30 countries across Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Indigenous communities in Australia.