Dave, Katie, Dean and Christina will be packing their backpacks and heading to Nepal to trek to the basecamp of the highest mountain in the world in October 2010!!

In 1996 during Dean's posting at Chatham with the Royal Engineers, he met Arjun and Dharma, two Queen's Gurkha's Engineers. He became very interested in their origins, and discovered a lot about their home country of Nepal from the many stories they told. Combined with his enjoyment of hill walking, this was what inspired Dean to have a passion to visit Nepal and trek to Base Camp.

In 2008, Dean realised the time had come to turn his dreams into reality. After many emails to friends, and many people keen but not able to commit, the team was formed!

Flights are now booked, and plans are in place to raise as much money as possible for the three charities we will be supporting: Marie Curie Cancer Care, The Cure Parkinson's Trust, and Child Welfare Scheme.

We will be hosting a couple of fundraising events over the next few months - a golf tournament at the end of May, and an auction at the beginning on July, both in Edinburgh - to help us maximise our fundraising. In the meantime, please give generously on one of our fundraising pages!

Our joint training consists of climbing to the highest peaks is Scotland, England and Wales. We will be heading to the Lake District to climb Scarfell Pike in April, followed by Ben Nevis in May, and Snowdon in July. We will keep you posted on our progress!

To find out further details on the trek, the charities, the fundraising events, our training, or the team, please visit our website:

www.BaseCamp2010.co.uk

Thank you in advance

 

The Difference Your Contribution Could Make

£5 could help educate a child, by providing them with school books for a year

£10 could provide medical help for a child living in a remote mountain community

£25 could prevent health problems and accidents associated with traditional stoves, by building an improved cooking stove for a family

£40 could provide protection and safety for a girl at high risk of abuse, by paying for an emergency home for a month

£50 could mean a street child no longer has to go hungry, by buying them a meal every day for a year

£100 could give a disadvantaged young person a new start in life, by paying for a month's vocational training

£250 could help treat patients and save lives, by paying the salary of a doctor for a whole month

£400 could help keep mothers and babies safe, by providing training to mothers for a year

£1,000 could pay the salary of a social worker for a month, providing support to 100 children and their families

£1,200 could help to educate street children and ex-trafficked girls, by covering the salary of a teacher for a year

£1,500 could buy enough medicines for a mobile clinic to last a year, helping to treat patients and save lives

£2,000 could help disadvantaged young people start their first job, by providing them with equipment for a house where they can stay until they are ready to live independantly

£2,500 could enable CWS to provide a hostel for a year, for child patients and carers during long term treatment

£5,000 could provide a safe and warm night shelter for street children for a year

 

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