Simon Ashby-Rudd is fundraising for War Child

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Kilimanjaro Climb

on 09/10/2009

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Simon Ashby-Rudd

Raising money for

War Child

Charity Registration No. 1071659

War Child is an international child protection agency that works with the most marginalised children - child soldiers, street kids and children in prison - in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. War Child believes it is unacceptable that children continue to be victims of war. In the last decade alone 1.5 million children have died in wars. Four million have been disabled and a further 10 million traumatised. We provide vital, on the ground support programmes in each of the conflict zones we work in but also lobby politicians and governments to ensure our cause and the rights of children affected by war remains high on the public and political agendas. This approach allows us to ensure every pound we receive goes as far as possible - not only to the crucial projects in the field, but to ensuring children caught up in conflict, no matter where they may be, have a chance to be protected. We work where other agencies do not, reaching the most at risk children in the most dangerous war zones and your support means we can continue to do so. War Child looks forward to a world in which war is not prosecuted on children.

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Raised so far: £5,680.00

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Dear Friends and Colleagues

As I have informed a number of you, I have agreed to join a charity team to climb Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in the first week of October this year. Standing at almost 20,000 feet, Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa and represents a very real challenge for team. While this is an adventure for the team, the most important objective of the trip is to use this opportunity to raise funds for War Child, a charity we all have in the past and continue to support.

War Child (www.warchild.org.uk) is a small children’s charity committed to helping and protecting children living in the world’s most dangerous war zones. At this time the charity is active in Iraq, Afghanistan and D.R. Congo providing support and financial assistance to local organisations. The continuing conflicts in these regions have killed and displaced many but it is perhaps the children of these regions that have and continue to suffer the most as they are not able to protect or speak for themselves. As the problems these children face are not universal, the solutions War Child looks to provide are tailored to the individual requirements of the most vulnerable children. In the

Congo

upwards of 30,000 children have been actively engaged as child soldiers in the decade long civil war. Of those who survive and are no longer part of fighting forces, at least 10,000 have been unable to reconnect with their families and communities and are forced to live and work on the streets with many more being accused of witchcraft and excluded from society. War Child currently supports residential children centres in Kinshasha, provides health care and education in more remote communities and grants seed loans for returning child soldiers to enable them to set up business for themselves. In

Afghanistan

, conflict has destroyed the economy and resulted in many women and children are being forced into crime to survive. Afghan penal authorities are overloaded and so many children have ended up in adult prisons either to serve sentence or as a result of their mother’s being rape once inside. Once in prison the children are often exposed to abuse from inmates and guards. War Child's pioneering work has enabled the separation of children from adults in prison by setting up Juvenile Rehabilitation Centres and even kindergarten services to ensure they have access to adequate healthcare, food, clothing and recreation.

As always, more can be done if the funds can be found and I would therefore ask you to donate generously to what I believe is a worthy and unfortunately necessary cause. Thank you in advance for your support and I will keep you informed as to our progress.

Simon

Belated congratulations on completing such an amazing challenge. 17/11/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
Great job Simon and team. And a promise is a promise. Pleasure to donate. 29/10/09	£1,000.00
Great achievement! 21/10/09	£50.00
Well done on a successful climb. 19/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
Are you done yet? All the best from Canada, Richard 15/10/09	£100.00
Good luck Buddy, From now on you will be known as Simon "The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain" Ashby-Rudd. 08/10/09	£250.00
Try not to smoke till you get to the top. 07/10/09	£150.00 + £42.31 Gift Aid
Good luck! 07/10/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
At least this is one thing you and Sully can't get your wives to do on your behalf! Good luck and have fun, relieved I'm not with you.. 05/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
very impressed - hope it goes well & looking forward to hearing the stories! 05/10/09	£120.00 + £33.85 Gift Aid
Will Cheryl Cole still be at the top? Good luck. 04/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
Breathe deeply, profoundly; get to the top; enjoy 28/09/09	£100.00
Good luck Smashby - hope you are in a state to enjoy the view at the top !! See you soon I hope - Tom, Alex, Sam, Lucy & Harry 28/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
Hi Simon best of luck! 27/09/09	£50.00
Simon, best of luck on the climb - great initiative and very worthwhile cause. 24/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
21/09/09	£75.00
Very worthy cause and you had better make sure you get to the top! Have a good climb. Todd 16/09/09	£500.00
Good luck, hope you don't run out of puff...... 15/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
Simon, all good wishes to you and the very best of good fortune 15/09/09	£50.00
Go for it...an exciting challenge..it will keep you in stories for anothe year 12/09/09	£75.00 + £21.15 Gift Aid
Hope it all goes well, if you see any oil seeps up there, don't forget to call me! 11/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
Look forward to hearing the stories afterwards....you do realise that there is no beer and roast beef with Yorkshire pud up there... 11/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
All the very best Simon. If you want to do some training in the banchory area then let me know. 11/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
10/09/09	£75.00 + £21.15 Gift Aid
A great cause Simon. Best of luck 09/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
An awe inspiring challenge for a man in your condition! Make sure your porters take lots of oxygen for you though. 09/09/09	£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid
Simon - good luck, it'll be an even better view than from your offices 09/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
Good luck Simon! 08/09/09	£75.00 + £21.15 Gift Aid
Best of luck, have a great time and enjoy the view from the top! 07/09/09	£75.00 + £21.15 Gift Aid
Make sure you take some good pics Simon! Good Luck 07/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

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