I've raised £15000 to continue the support of The Open Heart Disability Care Trust
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Hector and Bernard Macleod are raising £10,000 for The Open Heart Disability Care Trust
This year I am walking to The North Pole in aid of The Open Heart Disability Care Trust, supporting disabled and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. My brother Bernard Macleod, has been working tirelessly to support this wonderful charity. I am helping him raise £10,000 for this cause, by walking to the North Pole. At the beginning of April myself and four other hapless adventurers will be dropped on the Arctic ice by a Russian helicopter. We are attempting an unsupported mission, without dogs, snow mobiles or air supplies. Our expedition team leader is the world renown Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes We will spend two weeks trekking. I successfully managed to walk to the South Pole four years ago.
information about The Open Heart Disability Care Trust
The Open Heart Disability Care Trust helps and supports up to 500 children and young people every month. The OHDCT is not an orphanage – children live with parents or extended family and visit the centre. The emphasis is on community engagement and keeping children as functioning members of families, villages and the wider world.
The monthly expenditure of $5,000 pays for the running of the Centre, the provision over two thousand meals per month, the delivery of over hundred food hampers to severely disabled children who cannot visit the Centre, special needs education and equipment, support for special cases and some capex towards making the Centre more efficient and able to cater for more people.
Located in Central Mashonaland in Northern Zimbabwe the OHDCT is based on five fundamental pillars • Supplemental feeding for all children: • Life skills training such as agriculture and crafts • Promoting skills that can be used in later life to generate income and allow some form of economic self-sufficiency • Special Needs Teaching for those most severely disabled • Community engagement to educate local people about the needs and abilities of disabled children
WHERE IS THE NORTH POLE?
The North Pole is the northernmost point on Earth. It is the precise point of the intersection of the Earth's axis and the Earth's surface. From the North Pole, all directions are south. It’s latitude is 90 degrees North, and all lines of longitude meet there (as well as at the South Pole, on the opposite end of the Earth). Polaris, the current North Star, sits almost motionless in the sky above the pole, making it an excellent fixed point to use in celestial navigation in the Northern Hemisphere. The North Pole sits in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, on water that is almost always covered with ice. The ice is about 2-3 meters (6-10 feet) thick. The depth of the ocean at the North Pole is more than 4,000 meters (13,123 feet). The Canadian territory of Nunavut lies closest to the North Pole. Greenland, the world's largest island and an independent country within the Kingdom of Denmark, is also close to the pole. The Canadian postal code for the North Pole is H0H 0H0 and a reference to the area's most famous mythical resident, Santa Claus.
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