A Walk to Remember

Local PAIL Network Volunteers will be hosting events in several locations across Ontario on Sunday June 2nd, 2024 from 10 am – 12:30 pm (unless otherwise stated below). Families will gather between 10 am – 10:30 am at a meeting spot from which the walk will begin and end. The 3-5 km walk will start at 10:30 am and will take approximately one hour. Following the walk, everyone is welcomed to join with others for a snack provided by PAIL Network.

Details of the walk location, including the address and meet up spots will be shared with registrants by email closer to the date. On the day of the event, registrants will meet a PAIL Network Volunteer on site to pick up their commemorative Walk to Remember flag (one per household) and stickers for everyone to personalize or write the names of the babies you are walking in honour of.  (If there is not a Walk in your community, or you would prefer to walk alone or with just close family and friends, there will an option to select “No location.  I am walking in my own community”).

A social media post about the event will be made to our private Facebook Group at the time of the walk. This Walk to Remember thread will be a place for you to share photos as you are walking and connect with the several hundred other families who will be walking in this special event.

This private event will not facilitated by trained peer support volunteers and is not a substitute for group support.  Families will be welcomed to share their grief with others on the walk if they would like but will not be expected or asked to share their story in a public forum.