LAHORE, Oct 3: Peace activist Jimmy Engineer walked from the Punjab University’s New Campus to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital on Friday to raise funds for poor cancer patients and enhance public awareness about the disease.

He undertook the “solo walk” with a caravan of 10 trucks, carrying banners bearing inscriptions, “help us beat cancer,” “cancer is curable,” etc. He covered the 10-kilometre distance in about two hours to reach the hospital where he met the children suffering from cancer.

Talking to Dawn before starting his walk, he said he had visited the cancer hospital in June and promised that he would walk for the cause of the patients and create awareness in the public about the disease. He said he had also donated his over 300 calligraphy paintings to the hospital.

“The public must support the hospital and the cancer patients by giving generous donations,” urged the peace activist.

He also said he had walked for some 40 different causes, including 4,700kms walk from Peshawar to Karachi in 1994 to press the government for improving health facilities in the country.