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Welcome to Tanuki Trailwalker!

We will use this blog to keep you informed about our active training, fundraising and other news...

...but what is this Tanuki Trailwalker!??!?!?

Could you walk 100 km and tackle poverty at the same time?

Oxfam Trailwalker is a challenging endurance fundraising event in which teams of 4 complete 100km trail through bush terrain in 48hours. Oxfam Trailwalker is a growing global phenomenon. In 2007, Oxfam Trailwalker have taken place in five different countries across Australia, New Zealand, China (Hong Kong), the UK and Japan.

WHEN? 16th - 17th (-18th) May 2008
WHERE? 100km from Odawara city to Lake Yamanaka

Our team is called TANUKI (official number 097).

Oxfam Trailwalker is the world's greatest team challenge to overcome poverty and injustice because it comprises three challenges in one event:

■ a satisfying phisical endeavor: to complete 100kms in 48 hours.

■ a fun team exercise: to do the above as a team of four, you have to start together, stick together, and finish together. It takes training and preparation and involves the support of some volunteers to back you up along the way.

■ a rewarding fundraising enterprise: to commit to raise at least 120,000JPY per team to support the work of Oxfam.

The donations have been used to implement projects in many of the poorest regions of the world to help end poverty and provide vital relief following natural disasters and conflict. Please click here for the details about how collected donations have been used.

Oxfam Trailwalker is an event that involves significant commitment, endurance and at the end of it all, a wonderful sense of achievement. Whatever role you play, by participating in this ultimate life changing event, you will be helping to make a real difference by raising funds for some of the poorest communities in the world.

http://www.trailwalker.jp/en/aboutus/event_information/