An Extraordinary Walk for Seeds of Hope 希望种子特别之旅

Last Friday Steve Hackman, Head of Christian and Community Development at the Yew Chung Education Foundation, set off on a 2,000km, two-and-a-half-month walk.

上周五，耀中教育机构基督教和社区发展负责人Steve Hackman步行了2000公里，历时两个半月。

Mr Hackman is walking the Via Francigena – an ancient route trodden by many thousands of Christian pilgrims from Canterbury Cathedral in England to St Peter’s Square, the Vatican. In doing the walk, Mr Hackman hopes to raise awareness of our YCIS charitable foundation Seeds of Hope, and raise funds for our current project to build a secondary school in Manila.  

Hackman先生走过Via Francigena—一条古老的道路，数千名基督徒朝圣者从英国坎特伯雷大教堂走向梵蒂冈圣彼得广场。Hackman先生希望通过这次行动，提高公众对YCIS慈善基金会希望种子的认识，并为马尼拉建立中学的项目筹集资金。

Mr Hackman is a self-confessed “walk-aholic”, but it has not always been the case. He did his first major walk just three years ago with his 14-year old son; a 300km walk from the West to the East coast of England. “Before then I was a couch potato, not a hiker,” he told the South China Morning Post, but “the Coast to Coast walk with my son was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life and made me realise long-distance walking would always be part of me.”

Hackman先生是一个自认的“暴走狂”，但情况并非总是如此。他三年前与14岁的儿子一起开始了第一次步行；从英格兰西海岸到东海岸步行300公里。 “在此之前，我是一个沙发马铃薯，而不是徒步旅行者，”他告诉《南华早报》，但“沿岸与我的儿子走是我生命中最美丽的经历之一，并让我意识到长途跋涉永远是我的一部分。”

The Via Francigena will be arduous at times, especially in the height of the European summer, but Mr Casey Fanning, Character Development Officer at YCIS Beijing, commented “its physical and mental highs and lows represent the seasonal journeys we undergo in life.”

Via Francigena有时会很艰苦，特别是在欧洲夏季的高峰期，但YCIS北京的角色发展官员Casey Fanning先生评论说：“它的身体和精神高峰和低谷代表了我们在生活中经历的季节性旅程。”

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