The Mustard Seed in Red Deer is asking you to walk a mile in someone else shoes this weekend, as they  host their annual Coldest Night of the Year Fundraiser on Saturday.

It's a charity walk, where you can pledge to walk 2, 5 or 10 kilometres on a trail that is set up along familiar walking paths for some of the city's homeless, to try and illustrate exactly how much ground they can cover on an average night.

Byron Bradley is the charity's Managing Director for Central Alberta.

“It’s to raise awareness for our most vulnerable neighbours. We intentionally set the trails up on regular walked routes for our folks. And for a lot of our folks, they are putting a lot of miles on. It’s quite a tough reality that a lot of our people face in our community.”

Bradley says the annual fundraiser is a reminder of what some people go through every day.

“I had a gentleman one time sharing a story with a local school, and he said on an average day he walks between 20-50 km out on the streets every single day, just kind of wandering. It’s quite a tough reality that a lot of our people face in our community.”

The walk starts Saturday, February 24th at 4pm down at the Red Deer Mustard Seed, with the proceeds going to help the 400 plus visitors to the seed each week, as well as the 350 children a week they feed through their school lunch program.