Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Debbie Schachner (class of 2000) is profiled in the 4 March 2007 issue of the Belleville (IL) News-Democrat in an article by Suzanne Boyle. It's headlined "Changing the world step by step; O'Fallon's Debbie Schachner walks across the U.S. to help people in Kenya"
She's walking across the country on the American Discovery Trail in order "to raise $47,000 to build a library in Timau, Kenya." The article reports that she started in the Spring of 2005. "She has 1,700 miles more to go on her quest, but she temporarily put her backpack away late last fall so she could earn money to pay for her trip back to Kenya."
Shachner "began taking day hikes when she started college, then hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2000 and worked at a wilderness school in Wyoming during the summer of 2002." A teaching job took her to Kenya, where she came to know their need for a library.
Check it out! (Library pun intended.) She starts hiking agian on 11 April, the day after Easter.
Monday, March 05, 2007
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