GirlTREK Movement
GirlTREK is the largest health movement and nonprofit organization for Black women and girls in the U.S. We encourage Black women to walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, as an act of radical self-care. Our programming has done what no billion-dollar weight loss company or public health campaign has done. Black women are walking at life-saving levels. They’re getting off meds. They’re losing weight. They’re finding joy.
In 2020, we met our audacious goal to inspire a million Black women to walk. We will now leverage this critical mass of Black women to reclaim our neighborhoods, create population-level systems change, and inspire a global culture of health that will reverse the devastating impacts of chronic disease and increase the life expectancy of Black women worldwide.
GirlTREK Movement
9 million people watched as GirlTrek’s tiny staff of 10 Black women walked 100 miles on The Underground Railroad in five days.
So many emails, text messages, and calls. You said: “We want to do it too!!!”
Now is your chance!
Next year, on September 28, 2024, 10,000 Black women will walk 21 miles on The Underground Railroad, starting in the exact location where Harriet Tubman made her first escape. We will walk her average daily distance - 21 miles - in teams of 3, splitting the route into the divine number of 7 miles each.
After the Trek, we will celebrate our victory with an epic festival and headlining concert.
It’s the ironman of #BlackGirlHealing, the Woodstock of our generation, and we are calling it:
The Ultimate Freedom Trek!
Ready to join us?
To qualify, you have to stay the course of walking five days a week for 30 minutes a day for at least one month this season.
When you succeed, we will award you golden shoelaces.
Only women who earn their golden shoelaces in 2023 can walk on The Underground Railroad with us in 2024.
For the women who’ve struggled to meet this GirlTrek milestone, do not worry.
We've got you.
Not only is our 2023 season packed full of your favorite campaigns (can you say new Black History Bootcamps!), BUT our national team is stepping up to the plate this year to personally inspire you!
We will complete every GirlTrek challenge, we will set ambitious health goals and document our journeys on social media, and we will go before you this September to scout the route and prepare for 2024.
We start this crusade, on the sacred day of March 10th, 2023, Harriet Tubman Day. It’s a Friday and we are going to set it off across the country with 1,000 Harriet House Parties.
Harriet House Parties are a powerful way for women to come together and set intentions for the year, have conversations about their health, and make commitments about their walking. Harriet House Parties are a beautiful celebration of sisterhood and a real way to inspire your friends and family to join you on the journey to health.
REGISTER YOUR HARRIET HOUSE PARTY TODAY at www.girltrek.org/act/harrietshouseparty.
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