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Namibia challenge..

Aarti Thakor is raising money for SOS Children's Villages UK

Participants: Aarti and Lei Hui

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Namibia Desert Trek · 6 June 2008

SOS Children's Villages UK offers unsupported children worldwide the chance to grow up in a safe and nurturing family environment with education and healthcare. We work to reduce family breakdown and child abandonment and protect at-risk children affected by conflict and disaster.

Story

Firstly, a huge thanks for visiting our page....you are one step away from helping us make a difference!  

Who are we?

Two people determined to make a difference and to do something crazy before the old bones give in.

What are we doing?

A 12 day gruelling trek in Namibia through some of the hottest and most untouched parts of the world, including Fish Canyon: the world's second largest canyon, the Nakluft Mountains and the Namib and Kalahari desert, where they have the highest sand dunes in the world.

We will cover about a serious amount of mileage from North to South Namibia.

Why are we doing it?

We are undertaking this HUGE challenge for the SOS Children's charity, which supports children without parents (AIDS orphans, child soldiers, children orphaned by poverty) all over the world.

We aim to raise £6,000. Any money now raised will go directly to SOS Chilren's Charity. Our organisation of the trek by ourselves is more economical than most pre-organised charitable trekking expeditions, and ensures that more of the money raised actually goes to SOS Children.

And finally, why should you support us??

It's going to be hot. It will be painful. We will smell.  We may never speak to each other again.  We may also just kill each other.

The possibilities are endless, and should demonstrate to you how much of a personal challenge for each of us this will be.  But we reckon its worth it if it helps us save the life of even 1 child.

Please help us make our target so that (i) we can all make a difference and (ii) you can see how this story ends!!

Remember to Gift Aid it people... a whopping additional 25% in Gift Aid is added to your donation.

UPDATE: We are ready to go this May! Thank you so much for all of your support whilst we had hiccups with our preparation - it has really meant a lot. So if you haven't donated.....

PLEASE DON'T WAIT, AND DONATE NOW!!, 

Thanks for your continued support guys :)

Thank you in advance for reading and for caring,

xxxx

Donation summary

Total
£5,937.13
+ £784.07 Gift Aid
Online
£4,195.13
Offline
£1,742.00

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