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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. Im trying to raise £5,000 for the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association and my challenge will be to climb Machu Picchu in Peru in 2012 to walk the Inca Trail. Sounds pretty but the trek to get there is gruelling and often in soaring, tropical temperatures. The added challenge is that I suffer from advanced arthritis in my lower spine and Sacroilliac Joints as well as knees so this trip will be all the more arduous and challenging for me. I am funding myself to go so every penny I raise will go direct the charity I have chosen.</p>
<p>The charity I have chosen is I believe a very worthwhile cause but unfortunately a charity which has been somewhat forgotten due to the popularity of the the new Help for Heroes Charity. My long standing friend Kirsty whom I joined up with as an Airwoman at the tender age of 16 has a lovely hubby called Mark who served in Op Granby/Desert Storm and Op Telic in Iraq and was exposed to various chemicals used in the war and in their medication they had to take for 90 days which had not been properly tested prior to being administered. Results of which, we think, have affected their beautiful daughter Ellie. It is believed that Ellie is a Gulf War Syndrome Child and as such suffers from a rare combination of physical disabilties as a consequence of the cocktail of injections that were administered to her father along with the NAPS medication he took for 90 days. This charity receives no help from the Government whatsoever and yet are committed to look after sick soldiers and their families welfare and health which they believe has been affected by their participation in war operations during the first gulf war.</p>
<p>So please dig deep and donate now. If any of you can help me and commit to helping me raise money for this worthwhile cause, it would be greatly received.</p>