Did you know that 1 in 3 children in London live below the poverty line? In March 2007, we will be trekking through the Peruvian Andes for Help A London Child.

The trek will include eight days of non-stop walking, along with the sort of hardship and deprivation we four non-campers have never endured before: no showers, no toilets, high altitude, not to mention hills as steep as staircases. We have already begun training and are currently walking 10 miles a week. By March we hope to be walking 24 miles a week, although nothing can prepare us for the trauma of having to sleep in a tent...

Our aim is to raise £20,000 for the charity and each of us is covering our own costs for this Trek: every penny donated will go straight to Help a London Child - not to pay for our trip.

So Please dig deep and help us reach this huge goal.

"less advantaged kids don't have less imagination, just less opportunity to express it" Lord Attenborough