Hi! I am fundraising to raise money for medical kit for our Children's A and E department in Blantyre, Malawi's second city.

I work with a brilliant team here and we have just had the joy of opening a gorgeous new department building, but there is still a persistent need for high quality equipment. It is inevitably expensive. Running water, piped oxygen, nebuliser machines, blood pressure and oxygen sats monitors, privacy screens, resuscitation equipment, blood bottles and lots of meds are currently in variable to short to scant supply.

Malawi is an exceptionally beautiful country and I'm quite looking forward to plodding about it to be honest, but being one of the poorest in the world with extremely high rates of malaria, gastroenteritis, malnutrition, road traffic accidents and HIV the need in our public hospital is desperately huge. Children arrive on foot, or by long bus ride often days after becoming worryingly unwell. Currently, its malaria season, and we are seeing staggering numbers of extremely sick kids with cerebral malaria and life threatening anaemia every day.

Until now, I've carefully avoided every single competitive jog, couch to 5k, park run or toughmudder that's come into my vicinity since the obligatory bleep test - so will see how we go, but I'm incredibly grateful for any sponsorship.

My supervisor here is director of FoSCiM so I know that every pound raised will make a real practical difference, directly resulting in better care being delivered for our kids.

As a thank you, I've characteristically left starting training to the 11th hour, meaning you don't have to put up with updates about my tragically slow progress for too long. x x x x

£50 provides a nebuliser machine to treat patients with asthma 

£300 provides a procedure trolley to perform minor operations such as suturing

£1000 provides an infusion pump for a patient requiring fluid resuscitation

£3000 provides resuscitation couches for 2 patients 

£8000 provides 4 patient monitors in the resuscitation room