Fundraising one step at a time

Ōrewa’s Danielle Watson has chosen a World Vision fundraising challenge that involves getting out of her comfort zone and spending hours on a treadmill as well as walking outside. The 20-year-old’s goal is to walk 400km in 40 days.

“World Vision challenges people to take 40 hours or 40 days and try and understand what life must be like for those less fortunate than ourselves,” she says. “As someone who is out of breath at the top of a flight of stairs, and parks as close as possible to any store to avoid walking, I thought this would be a suitably big challenge for me,” she says.

As Danielle is currently off work because of concussion, she is using a treadmill to do most of the walking. Once she has walked for a few weeks on that, she aims to walk around Ōrewa.

“I am determined to finish the 40 days because it is such a good cause – if you are going to push yourself to do something hard I believe that doing it for a cause is the best motivation both for myself, and people following my journey.”

She started her walk on Monday, June 12 and will finish on Friday, July 21.

Danielle will be tracking her progress on social media using the hashtag #400kin40Days

Donations can be made to her fundraising page: https://my.worldvision.org.nz/d/ss/ F6HvuO/danielle-maree-watson