Story
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;"><strong>Jamie and Kim's - <span style="color: #ffcc00;">St John's Hospice</span> - Peru Trek Fundraiser<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ffcc00;"><strong> </strong></span>St John's Hospice on the Wirral provides specialist palliative care and support for patients with severe and progressive disease, usually cancer, and their families.</p>
<p>The cost of providing care to patients and their loved ones is over £2.4 million per year and we are helping to reach this target with your support.</p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Our Aims!!!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">- Fundraising target of £6000 in total (£2000 on Justgiving)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">- To trek the Andean trail in Peru over 10 days in August 2011</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">- To gain help and pull together the local community to raise awareness of the fantastic hospice.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">- Allow <strong>ALL</strong> University of Liverpool students the chance to make a difference.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">- Promote fundraising and charity work and broaden its potential amongst young people in the community. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">- Holding many charity events within the community.</span></span></p>
<p><br />- HAVE FUN!!!</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="color: #ffcc00;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Why we are involved...</span></strong></span></p>
<p>Jamie Box -</p>
<p>I am involved after a personal experience with the Hospice when I lost my father (aged 38) when I was only15 to progressive cancer.</p>
<p>Since then I have also experienced other family members using the hospice for both respite and ultimately palliative care. They do a fantastic job and make such a difficult time as peaceful and comforting as possible.</p>
<p>Kim Gibson -</p>
<p>I have first-hand expereince of the amazing work the Hospice do, both as I lost family members including grandparents and aunts, and more recently as a volunteer working on their wards.</p>
<p>The care provided by the staff in the Hospice is exemplary, and I believe the Hospice is an essential organisation for the Wirral - so I wanted to do my bit to return their help and support by raising as much as possible.</p>