As Christmas approaches, I have decided to forsake the family comforts of a warm bed and turkey dinner, and instead set off to conquer the world’s highest free-standing mountain, Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet above sea level).  The trek will take 6 days, eventually summiting on Christmas Day.

The climb will be in aid of a children’s charity, Help a Poor Child, a voluntary organisation I have been working with for over 20 years.  Most of the children we work with are deprived to an unimaginable degree, as there is no education, little food, endemic diseases, high levels of disability, parental rejection and working from as early as 5 years of age or begging/scavenging for survival.  

With the Christmas gift-giving season around the corner, I appreciate everyone’s wallets and purses are already stretched; but any little amount that can be spared would make a massive difference to the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Thank you for your support.