The People’s Climate Walk, a 40-day journey during which a core group of 14 activists traversed more than 600 miles to raise awareness about climate justice, ended Saturday in Tacloban City, where typhoon Haiyan made landfall exactly one year ago.

Supported by Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the Climate Action Network, the walk was both a call to action and a demonstration of solidarity with frontline communities, especially the millions of survivors of Haiyan, which killed more than 7,000 people and displaced 4 million people, many of whom are still living in temporary shelters. The walkers, whose ranks swelled to as many as 3,000 at points along the route from the capital city of Manila to Tacloban, traveled an average of 15-20 miles a day. They slept in places where evacuees slept during the disaster—churches, schools, covered courts—and organized with members of local communities.

Naderev ‘Yeb’ Saño, a leader of the walk, said such grassroots energy would have a lasting impact. 

“At the least, every person whom we have encountered we can safely say we have converted on climate change action and they will become local environmental heroes in their own communities,” he told Agence France-Presse. “Many of them promised to us they would continue the fight by organizing with their own communities to protect their natural resources.”

Next month, Saño will attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru. Last year, he gained attention for his emotional appeal to world leaders at the UN Climate Talks in Warsaw, Poland.

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“To anyone who continues to deny the reality that is climate change, I dare you to get off your ivory tower and away from the comfort of you armchair,” Saño said at the time.