Date and Time
Saturday Apr 25, 2026
10:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
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Becky Fitch
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Description
📣 Every step you take helps lighten the load for a child in need. Let’s walk together. Let’s walk with heart. Let’s walk Miles in Their Shoes.
Miles in Their Shoes is a community walk raising awareness and support for local children in crisis, with symbolic elements that reflect the challenges many kids carry every day.
Miles in Their Shoes is more than a walk. It is a powerful in-person experience designed to foster empathy, raise awareness, and inspire action for children facing crisis in our community.
The event begins with a lap of silence, honoring the voices of children who often go unheard. As participants walk in quiet reflection, they carry backpacks to represent unseen burdens, navigate obstacles that mirror real-life barriers, and move past labels that too often define children in the system. Along the route, walkers encounter stories, symbols, and spaces that bring to life the emotional and physical weight many children carry every day.
At the end, participants come together for a final lap in solidarity—walking as one to affirm that no child should have to carry their challenges alone.
This event invites you to step into someone else’s shoes, not just to understand, but to act.
Whether you walk for a child you know, or one you have never met, every step tells a story and every story deserves to be heard.
