The Charities:

The charitable side of the climb was set out from the very beginning and was one of the reasons I wanted to climb the mountain. The climbers are not required to raise money to pay for the trip therefore anything raised goes directly to the charity. As a partnership, we have committed to raise £30,000 pounds for charity, so this breaks down to approximately a £1,500 per climber. This fundraising is going to be organisational and personal. There will be a big event later in the year and in the meantime we will be putting together a fundraising group to help organise some smaller events, so get your thinking caps on!

There are 2 charities that we are raising funds for, a NHS SOTW charity and the Sunderland partnership charity.

The NHS SOTW charity is the Kilimatinde Trust, a charity that supports a hospital with four community clinics and a nurse training school in one of the poorest provinces of Tanzania.

Outpatient Clinic, Kilimatinde Hospital.

Operating Theatre, Kilimatinde Hospital.

The partnership charity is The African Blackwood Conservation Project (ABCP). The aim of this project is to help replenish this valuable tree in Tanzania. Most people will not have knowingly seen blackwood but almost everyone will have heard it, for it is the premier wood of choice for fine concert-quality woodwind instruments such as clarinets, oboes and flutes, as well as being used in the manufacture of bagpipes

Weeding the area to allow the planting of trees.

Children planting Blackwood seedlings.

There are links to the charities on the links section of blog if you want to see more, plus a link to my just giving page, if you want to make a donation. Aaron's Just Giving Page