July 01 2025 at 03:37AM
The Great Walk 2025: 880 km to End Homelessness
Exciting news! The Great Walk now has support from 10 PMI Chapters: Barcelona, Switzerland, Madrid, Belgium, The Netherlands, Romania, Poland, Portugal, Ireland, and Turkey. PMI Netherlands is proud to unite with these Chapters in support of this Social Good Project “The Great Walk” - an 880km, 30-day journey to raise awareness about homelessness across Europe.
In partnership with NGO Homeless Entrepreneur, this initiative blends advocacy with action, spanning 20 marathons in length by walking across five countries. With every donation, story shared, and act of support, PMI NL members help pass the torch—turning experience into opportunity and purpose into progress.
“THE GREAT WALK 2025 is project management at its most human and powerful. Seeing PMI Chapters align, collaborate, and walk for a shared cause is truly inspiring - it’s purpose-driven planning in action.”
— Laura Roversi, Vice President, PMI Netherlands & Board Member
The Great Walk x Diversity Scholarship Pathway
PMI Netherlands is proud to launch a Diversity Scholarship Pathway in collaboration with The Great Walk 2025 - inspired by the belief that lasting change begins with empowering people.
The vision is clear: to open doors for those impacted by housing insecurity - providing access to project management education, professional mentorship, and skill-building opportunities that foster sustainable, personal, and community-level impact.
While the specific scholarship offerings are still being shaped, this initiative will focus on supporting the leaders and key influencers from the Great Walk - those capable of identifying vital behaviors, removing barriers to change, and creating enabling environments for transformation.
Ready to walk?
The Great Walk in the Netherlands and Belgium has a total of approx. 174 km and is mostly flat. Starting on August 12 in Amsterdam, going to Utrecht, Tillburg, Eindhoven, then crossing the Belgium border heading to Antwerp, the Great Walk ends in Brussels on August 15. It’s flat, accessible, urban and symbolic of cross-border unity and with a powerful theme of visibility, dignity and the urge to start the change now.
We have a more detailed article on The Great Walk - read it here.
