Children's nurse Charlotte Taylor will climb Mount Kilimanjaro this summer to raise money for HELPING.
Twenty-eight year old Charlotte wants the cash she raises to be directed into HELPING's Medical Fund to help provide facilities, equipment and supplies and pay for medical treatments.
Charlotte, who lives in Balham, south-west London, has worked at the Evelina Children's Hospital, part of Guys and St Thomas' in the capital, for five years.
"At work I am lucky enough to have the provisions to provide care and treatment to many sick children. I would like to raise money for children and their families that do not have the equipment/ supplies/ facilities to receive the healthcare we often take for granted," she explains.
"My mum sponsors a teacher through HELPING and is always telling me about the great things HELPING has achieved so it was an easy decision to raise money for the charity. Now I just have to climb the mountain!"
Twenty-eight year old Charlotte wants the cash she raises to be directed into HELPING's Medical Fund to help provide facilities, equipment and supplies and pay for medical treatments.
Charlotte, who lives in Balham, south-west London, has worked at the Evelina Children's Hospital, part of Guys and St Thomas' in the capital, for five years.
"At work I am lucky enough to have the provisions to provide care and treatment to many sick children. I would like to raise money for children and their families that do not have the equipment/ supplies/ facilities to receive the healthcare we often take for granted," she explains.
"My mum sponsors a teacher through HELPING and is always telling me about the great things HELPING has achieved so it was an easy decision to raise money for the charity. Now I just have to climb the mountain!"
Charlotte grew up in Stanstead Abbotts close to where HELPING's founders Chris and Margaret Meeks still live and she has known Margaret since she was three years old. She attended St Andrew's Primary School in the village. Margaret was delighted to receive a phone call from her recently to ask if she could donate the proceeds from her climb to HELPING.
Climbing
Kilimanjaro holds many challenges including the varied terrain
beginning with bushland, through rain forest, heath and desert to the
icy rock summit at 5895m. Charlotte leaves for Tanzania on July 8th ready to begin the climb on the 10th. The trek is expected to take six days. Charlotte has never attempted anything similar before and her training regime includes general fitness such as running and swimming twice a
week.
"I am taking every opportunity to wear my walking boots in, including
shopping on Oxford St in them!", she says.
A fundraising page has been set up on Just Giving to make sponsoring Charlotte a very straightforward procedure. If you would like to support Charlotte's climb and make a donation towards the HELPING Medical Fund, please click on the following link. If you have any difficulty, please copy and paste the URL into your browser.
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