One island. 233 kilometres. 21 stages.
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A Walk Around Phuket is a walk around the entire coastline of the island, walked in stages, one morning at a time, beginning in mid-August 2026.
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It has two aims: to bring people together, and to raise funds for the children of Phuket who need it the most.
How It Works
The walk is divided into 21 stages of about 10 to 12 kilometres each — a single morning's walk. Each stage is walked separately, over the coming months.
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Every stage is an open invitation. You don't need to be an athlete, and you don't need to commit to all 233 kilometres. You just show up for one morning and walk a stretch of coast with whoever else turns up that day.
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Each stage has its own event page, so you can see where and when it starts, let me know you're coming, and ask anything you need to know beforehand.
The Project
A single grain of sand is too small to notice. Together, they're a beach.
Why We Walk
We build community
Community isn't something you find. It's something you build, with other people, around a shared purpose, one small act at a time.
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That's why the walk is 21 short stages instead of one long journey. Anyone can give a morning: you arrive as a stranger at the start of a stretch of coast, and by the end you've walked it with someone new.
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You don't need to be an athlete or commit to all 233 kilometres. Come for one stage, or come for ten. Every morning brings a different group together.
We raise awareness and funds
Phuket is known for its beaches and its visitors. Less visible are the children who live here with far less: children going without the education, safety and care that others take for granted.
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So during the length of this project, I will point at the children who live in different areas of the island and ask people to help. There are partner organisations supporting these children and every donation goes directly to the one you choose.
We empower
It's easy to look at problems this size and feel too small to help. That feeling is the real obstacle, not indifference, but the sense that whatever you could offer wouldn't matter. This walk is built to prove otherwise: a single morning, a single stretch of coast, an amount you choose.
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And it works both ways. The organisations we walk for aren't handing out charity; they're giving children an education, a safe home and the confidence to build their own lives. What we raise doesn't rescue anyone. It puts tools in their hands.
The whole coastline of the island, from the Sarasin Bridge all the way back to it. 233 kilometres, broken into 21 morning stages.
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The Route
Who We Walk For
SOS Children's Villages Thailand provides loving, family-like care to children who have lost parental care, or are at risk of losing it. The Phuket village, in Koh Kaew, was built in 2007 following the 2004 Tsunami, and raises children in family houses where they grow up with the stability, education and sense of belonging that every child deserves.
What your support provides: unlike a one-off project, donations here go to the children's everyday care and, above all, their education — school, food, healthcare, and a safe home to grow up in. Donations through SOS Children's Villages Thailand's official channel are tax-deductible in Thailand.
For online donations: Select 'Other' under 'How did you hear about us?' and enter 'A Walk Around Phuket'.
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SOS Children's Village Phuket
(part of SOS Children's Villages Thailand)
Five local organisations caring for underserved children across Phuket. Every donation goes directly to the one you choose.
Since 2005, this foundation has given underprivileged Thai children free English education in the government schools of Kamala and Kalim, opening the door to better work and a way out of poverty. Many of the children live at the school because they have no place to call home, and the after-hours Coconut Club programme helps them build confidence as well as language.
What your support provides:Â 10,000 baht sponsors a child's English education and after-school club for a whole year.
If you kindly make a donation, please let Tina know on WhatsApp (+66 80-143-9554) so we can match it to A Walk Around Phuket project.
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Phuket Has Been Good To Us
A registered NGO on Koh Sireh that has given a family-style foster home to children in need since 2005 — today, 95 children who can't live with their own families, raised in family houses with the aim of safe reunification wherever possible.
What your support provides: an 82 kW solar system for the village — help fund it one kilowatt at a time, about 17,000 baht per kilowatt.Â
Phuket Sunshine Village Foundation
Good Shepherd Phuket Town
