The teams challenge…..A team of twelve like minded individuals some from the Royal Air Force, Royal Auxiliary Air Force and the Royal Naval Reserve, will come together in March 2012 and attempt to successfully summit Mount Kenya.
At a height of 5199 meters, Mount Kenya stands as Africa’s second highest mountain and Kenya’s highest. The group will complete a seven day trek following the Sirimon route, each day facing their own personal challenges as well as those posed by the heat, altitude, boulder fields and wildlife.
The charity…..The team will undertake this challenge in support of the RAF Benevolent Fund. Formed in 1919, the Fund has been the RAF’s principal charity for over 90 years. Their remit then, as it remains today, is to provide direct welfare assistance to those of the extended Royal Air Force family in need or distress.
It achieves this by providing financial and practical assistance to anyone who is serving, or has ever served in the extended RAF, their partners and dependents. They offer grant, care and mobility services to individuals as well as funding large-scale projects such as money and benefits advice services, relationship counselling, and childcare centres and games areas on RAF stations.
