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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">(Debs n Kes do Kenya)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Welcome to our fundraising page. We decided to have a joint one as we have mutual friends and don’t expect people to give twice – aren’t we generous? </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">In September we will be climbing a mountain. This isn’t a metaphor for life, we really will be scaling dizzying heights of 17,000 feet. Are we mad? Quite possibly.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">We’ve seen some gigs in our time but this surely must be the most extreme length to see one!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">When we reach the top of Lenana Point there’ll be a gig with a group of musicians that are coming along too. Apparently you’ll be able to watch it all via a web cam.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">We’ll be raising much-needed funds for Trekstock, a charity (in partnership with Cancer Research UK) that supports young people with cancer.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">All profits will fund the lifesaving research for the specific types of cancer that affect children and teenagers.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">We’ve been supporting the charity for a while now but thought it was about time we did a little bit more than donate every month to sit on our backsides laughing at comedians, hosted by our good friend James Redmond who you may know from Hollyoaks & Casualty but did you know he made the transition to stand-up comedian? He’s actually rather good! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">So… training has begun and despite our combined health issues of one dodgy knee, asthma and one of us hating any form of uphill gradient walking, we’re armed with a fierce determination, which will no doubt be boosted when the sponsorship comes in.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">We’ll be updating this page and facebook regularly as we’re hopefully going to be planning events over the coming months but in the meantime please do dig deep as we have a high target to reach both in monetary terms as well as the 4985m summit.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">It’s no walk in the park, well technically it is a walk in Mount Kenya National Park but over seven days we will be pushing ourselves physically, mentally and no doubt emotionally.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Every penny counts and we’ll be grateful for any donation.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Thank you for your support – we’re going to need it!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Many thanks and lots of love,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Kerry & Debs</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">http://trekstock.com/</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px;">UPDATE: Debs is officially crazy. "I'm auctioning myself for @trekstock. Please, please RT this auction link: http://bit.ly/nijwha"</p>
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