Camino Frances

Hello

My name is Chris Cooley & I have been involved with Gambia Projects Overseas since 2004. Over the years we have built a school Sinchu Bali, classrooms in another village & installed solar panels & water pump at the Sisters of Mercy orphanage to help with the laundry to mention but a few projects.

My wife Jane & I are undertaking the Camino starting early September & thought it would be a great idea to raise some funds to oversee GPO’s ongoing commitment to install IT classrooms for the children and access to the Internet free to all school children in our schools to broaden their education. This is an ongoing financial undertaking to ensure that that access continues into their futures and those that follow in years to come. Our walk will not only be a great personal achievement, but will be helping hundreds of children who would otherwise have no access to the World Wide Web. Thank you for your support.

For those of you not familiar with the Camino, it is a pilgrimage of about 500 miles generally starting from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France over the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Northern Spain. Pilgrims have been travelling to Santiago since around 950ad.

This trip has been on our list of expeditions since coming across people walking through Northern Spain whilst on a motorcycling holiday over 30 years ago. This time has now arrived.