Challenger Profile
Name:
Hayley Fay
Challenge Date:
25th May 2017
TOTAL
Donations:£1,570.00
Donations
Target:£1,200.00
Children
Sponsored Target:0
Online Total: £1,570.00
Offline Total: £0.00
Gift Aid: £392.50
U = Unique, Unbreakable, Unstoppable!!
I have been a member of St Marks church Battersea for the past 9 years and love the breadth of community outreach that the church is committed to. I am always up for an adventure and a new challenge so when St Marks the church I go to announced this challenge to climb Kilimanjaro I knew it was for me. Nothing spurs you on more than raising money for a good cause and knowing people have got behind you to do it.
I work for the NHS as an occupational therapist and I am proud to work for this great institution and believe that people get great care and it is a privilege. I have also seen first hand in 3rd world countries the inequalities people face and the lack of health care provision. It is heartbreaking to see children dying of AIDS and knowing that this could be different.
We are fundraising for Compassions' RESPOND Initiative is designed to strengthen the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS specifically in the Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania. The project focuses on increasing HIV testing and counselling for early diagnosis, promoting behavioural change through enhanced knowledge and improving access to affordable care and treatment.
Compassion also have child sponsorship programs. I have been sponsoring a little boy called Destine for the past 5 years through Compassion. He lives in Mariakani outside Mombasa in Kenya and is now 11 years old. Through our letters back and forth I have watched him grow and learn to read and write. My sponsorship helps to fund his healthcare, education and family and my hope and prayer is that he will be afforded better opportunities because of this. Our church sponsor a large number of children in this community and when St Marks announced there was also opportunity to meet our sponsored children I absolutely jumped at the chance.
At 5895m high Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, the fourth highest of the world’s Seven Summits and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. It is HIGH and the challenge is to climb it! I have trained for marathons, pelotons and hikes but nothing can fully prepare you for this climb at such high altitude. I have no idea how physically, emotionally I will reposed to this so my faith and my team is going to be a key part of getting up to the summit! “Inshallah"
The challenge is not only a physical one but also financial. I am going to be self-funding all my own costs for the trip and have had a to take a second job in order to make this happen.
I would love people to join me in raising funds for Compassion a truly worthwhile charity.