Hundreds of people across Donegal took part in the Darkness into Light walk this morning.
Across the country, participants began their 5k walk at 4am, as the sun rises, to raise funds for Pieta House.
It is this charity’s flagship annual fundraising and awareness event. It started with approximately 400 people in the now iconic yellow DIL T-shirts walking the 5km course in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in 2009.
Last year 130,000 people sharing the light at venues in Ireland and worldwide.
These events helped to promote suicide prevention and to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health, spreading the message that it’s okay not to be okay.
The Northwest Pieta House will officially open in Letterkenny on May 15th due to the generosity and fundraising efforts of our community.
Their largest fundraising event, the charity receives 14% of its funds from the government and must source the rest from donations.
Darkness into Light walks also took place in Vancouver, New Zealand, and San Francisco!
