Thanks for taking the time to visit the Hewlett Packard Financial Services EMEA Portfolio Management - JustGiving page raising money for Room to Read.

Room to Read envisions a world in which all children can pursue a quality education, reach their full potential and contribute to their community and the world. To help achieve this goal, they focus on child literacy and gender equality in education.

HPFS, as a partner in Room to Read's journey to educate 10 million children by the year 2015, are committed to hosting engaging and innovative fundraising opportunities that not only contribute to Room to Read's goals but also build community and cohesion within HPFS.

Two years ago, on November 16th, the HPFS PM Team climbed to the peak of Croagh Patrick in Co Mayo. 

Last  year, on November 15th, the team volunteered to brave the elements and hike over 14km and complete part of the Wicklow Way, this was duly completed.

This year we are planning to double up and tackle a route that is approximately 30km - all of us in Fancy Dress to make things interesting and a little more fun ....

The Wicklow Way is now part of a network of long-distance self-guided walking trails, (also called 'way-marked ways'), throughout Ireland. It combines easy accessibility with a wide variety of scenic experiences, some of them in truly remote upland areas. They include mountains, upland lakes, steep-sided glacial valleys, fast flowing mountain streams, forests and farmland.

The Wicklow Way begins in Dublin's southern suburb of Rathfarnham and travels in a south-south-westerly direction across the Dublin and Wicklow uplands, then through the rolling hill country of southwest County Wicklow to finish in the small, County Carlow village of Clonegal 127 kilometres later.

A combination of suburban parkland, forest trails, wild and scenic mountain landscape and finally rolling countryside offers a wonderfully varied, 8 to 10 day experience for a hill-walker of average fitness.

En route the Wicklow Way passes mountain lakes, ruined buildings -stark reminders of previous widespread human habitation- occasional memorials to historic events of past centuries and extensive remains of the early Christian monastic settlement in the beautiful Glendalough valley.

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