The 39th Macau Walk for a Million once again raised MOP 16 million despite being held online yesterday.
Organised by the Charity Fund from the Readers of Macao Daily News, the walk was held online via WeChat, with only its representatives walking around the University of Macau campus.
This was the third consecutive year that the event was held online.
Civic leader Tina Ho Teng Iat, president of the charity fund, said that this year more than 300 associations participated in the event, involving over 88,000 people. As of yesterday afternoon, the donations raised were similar to those in previous years, or about MOP 16 million, which will be used for charitable causes and public welfare.
Manuel Iok Pui Ferreira, vice president of the charity fund, said that the online event had achieved the expected results, especially based on the “online walk” experience for three consecutive years. In addition to local residents, he noted, also people from mainland China and abroad participated in the event.
The walk started at 10 am yesterday when organisers opened its WeChat “mini programme” for the public to participate in the event by turning on its WeChat “exercise app” to track their steps and sync their step counts with its online platform.
As of 10 pm yesterday, 82,300 participants had turned on their WeChat “exercise app”, of whom 46,429 participants walked at least 6,000 steps each and therefore were able to receive an electronic certificate, accumulating a total of 312.8 million steps, The Macau Post Daily reported.
