📅 Saturday, October 18, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 City Hall Civic Square, Downtown Cambridge

Walk A Mile in Their Shoes is YWCA Cambridge’s annual community fundraising walk and a bold, public stand against gender-based violence (GBV). It’s a powerful, visible act of solidarity. On October 18, we’ll walk a symbolic one-mile route through downtown Cambridge to raise awareness, raise funds, and raise our voices. Every step helps women, girls, and gender-diverse people access safety, shelter, and support.

All proceeds directly fund:

• A 24/7 emergency women’s emergency homeless shelter
• Free, violence prevention education with youth across Cambridge

🔁 How It Works

Walk A Mile is a peer-to-peer fundraising event—that means you are the changemaker.

✅ Become a Fundraiser, Join a Team or Donate

📣 Fundraise through your Personal/Team Page & Download the Team Leader Toolkit (link to come)

🚶🏽‍♀️ Register to Walk on October 18

🎉 Celebrate with food, speakers, music, and more!

💡 We’ve set an average goal of $250! Share your story. Ask your people. Watch the impact grow.

✨ Why Join?

Because the need is urgent and the impact is real.

• 75% of women experiencing homelessness are survivors of GBV
• Only 13% of shelter beds in Canada are dedicated to women
• A woman or girl is killed every 48 hours in Canada
• YWCA Cambridge’s youth programs reach kids as young as 8, but rely on community support to keep going

💌 Questions? Contact Britteny Blackman, Manager of Donor Relations and Communications, at b.blackman@ywcacambridge.ca.

For more information visit ywcacambridge.ca/events/walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes-2025/.

It takes a community to end gender-based violence. Walk with us.