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Every year an intrepid gang of middle aged ladies, I feel lucky to count myself amongst, challenge ourselves to raise money for one of the most personal and powerful little charities for women in the UK.

Why we walk

None of us can change the world, but if we can even just in some small way make life more bearable for girls and women living in unimaginable conditions today that's got to be worth a try.

Loving Humanity is a simple idea - a small family run British charity that provides at-cost period pad micro-factories to some of the poorest communities in the world, to restore dignity where it has been lost.

Amy Peake is the founder of Loving Humanity, the non-profit organisation working to provide reusable nappies and pads to women and mothers in war zones, refugee camps and slums. Their ethos is shaped around education, empowerment and equality, and they’re doing some great work elevating vulnerable communities.

The factories are staffed by refugee or vulnerable local women who, through their work, find or rediscover their self-worth. Amy’s journey to put a stop to period poverty in third world countries has been met with obstacle after obstacle but she has persevered and has achieved a great deal since she founded the business in 2014.

It's hard to cut through…

It's always so hard to know where any donation really goes and how much it actually helps those that so desperately need it. Walking our annual challenges with the charity founder Amy Peake herself gives us all a real grasp of just how powerful every donation is for her small but vital charity.

I normally feel a bit uncomfortable asking people to make donations to things, especially as things are harder than ever in our own country right now , but I absolutely know that the money raised directly from this walk will directly empower Amy's project on the edge of Gaza, where surely we must do anything we can to send love and support to this war-torn place..

At the end of 2023 working with the Red Cross Amy's team managed to get a few washable sanity pads into Gaza and they are in the process now of buying new washable materials for her pad project in Jordon with a view to supplying 1000 washable pads into Gaza there as soon as they can. That's 1000 women you could be directly helping with your donation...

If you even have £5 to spare trust me it will be going to make a real and genuine difference to women's lives out there

This years challenge :

This May we are off to scale Ben Nevis. At 1345m high it’s about one third bigger than Snowdon. Slightly worrying as Snowden def took some recovering from (!) but we are a tough old bunch of birds and not that easily put off.

(Hopefully I'll look slightly less dishevelled than at the end of the last one)

If you'd like to find out more about Amy's amazing work check out her website or follow her on Insta:

https://www.lovinghumanity.org.uk

https://www.instagram.com/loving_humanity/

All your love and support in this years challenge would be so very gratefully received.

Roz, Emily, Cass, Ailes xxxxxxx