Fundraising up the world’s highest freestanding mountain!
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Christmas atop Kilimanjaro
Ricky Rodrigues one of HELP A POOR CHILD’s (HAPC) ambassadors has decided to embark on a huge challenge this Christmas to help support HAPC, by climbing the world’s highest free-standing mountain, Kilimanjaro. He will be trading in the home comforts of Christmas time and embarking on a 6 day trek which will see him summit on Christmas Day. What he is doing is extraordinary and he has already raised £1505.00, trebling his original target and, with your help, this figure can only grow. Any amount large or small will help the children of Jarra Soma (location of the HAPC Children’s Village school) and others get the education they deserve and would make a massive difference to the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.
In May 2012 Help a Poor Child (HAPC) began what was to become their biggest and most rewarding project to date, the building of the first school in Jarra Soma, a village in The Gambia, West Africa. Thanks to the donation of land given to HAPC by a concerned village elder, HAPC were able to build one classroom and have 10 children enrolled by September 2012. Interest in enrolling in the school grew rapidly and the small school soon increased to 30 children.
Due to growing interest by village parents in enrolling their children into the school, construction on phase 2 began, which consisted of 2 more classrooms and an office. By September 2013 a further 60 children were now enrolled in the school. After construction of phase 3 completed, just 2 years on from the start of this project, 132 children are studying at the HAPC Gambia School, thanks to your generous support.
HAPC are eager to maintain and continue development of the School but are in need your support to do this. Right now the main priority of HAPC is to raise £5,000 per year which is just £40 a year for each child. As a result HAPC has now launched a Pledge Campaign, which they hope will lead to some of our supporters to donate just £4 a month and help secure the future of the HAPC Gambia School. To help with this effort, HAPC is also organising a fundraising New Year’s Eve Gala Ball at the Park Inn Hotel, Heathrow. Please click here for more information.
In the meantime, you can help Ricky to raise additional funds, through his efforts to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. If Ricky is able to reach a target of £2,500, it will enable the construction of another classroom at the HAPC School, giving 30 more children the wonderful opportunity of an education they would almost certainly never receive.
HELP A POOR CHILD – A little help gives a lot of hope.
https://www.justgiving.com/Ricky-Rodrigues