Photo's are finally uploaded on our facebook page! Please visit: 

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Video's have been uploaded on our youtube channel. Please visit!

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On May 14, 2012 we got to basecamp! Photos and videos to follow soon!

 

Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page.

 

So as some of you already heard, we are off to Nepal for our medical elective in May/June 2012. Seeing as 4 weeks are dedicated to hospital work, for the remaining 2 weeks, we've decided to Trek to Mount Everest basecamp. The responses we got were.... laughter after laughter... didn't realise how much people didnt have faith in our treking skills and fitness (ahmm ahmm).... So we decided to prove all of you wrong...! And what better way to prove it, than do a sponsored trek...

 

We will (hopefully) train for the trek before hand... just close your eyes now, and picture Nada and Sultana on a treadmill.... now picture us going uphill and treking for 15 whole days... a week to and a week back... hahaha something worth paying for eh?

 

All of your kind donations will go to Child Action Nepal, a charity that raises money to suppport orphans in Nepal, with the aim of providing them with better education and healthcare. Here are some information from the charity that might be of interest to you ( and hopefully, make you donate generously):

 

	Based on GDP, Nepal ranks as one of the world’s ten poorest nations. With the economic slowdown, diseases, natural disasters, poverty and the current Maoist “People’s War”, there are a growing number of children orphaned or made homeless.
	Some are left with relatives, who often are unable to cope with additional numbers, or join the thousands of homeless street children, who usually end up in the cities living a life of misery and squalor.
	Many young girls (estimated at up to 5,000 per year) are abducted and forced to work as prostitute in India and the Middle East where their comparatively fair skin is considered attractive.
	Nepal’s cultural practices are often responsible for a child’s plight, particularly in the case of second marriages. If a couple separates or divorces, or one of the parents die, the parent with custody of the children often remarries. Usually the new spouse will want little to do with the children who are treated like household slaves or are cast out. Often, the children end up left to their own devices.
	It is children from such environments who have found their way to orphanages funded by Child Action Nepal.

 A few figures about Nepal’s children

 Children under 16 years of age represent 40% of the population  (9.2  million)

 Almost 40% of these children are deprived of the right to  education

 2.6 million children out of this are forced to work for their own  survival. Many are living and working in inhuman and deprived  conditions

 Out of 100 children:

86 live in rural areas and 14 in urban centres
42 live in absolute poverty
56 suffer from malnutrition
51 complete primary school
3 die of diarrhea
51 are girls but only 61% of the girls are enrolled in primary school compared with 79% for the boys

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - We raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

 

 

Pictures and live footage will be posted for proof of our journey xD

 

So please dig deep and donate now.

 

Nada & Sultana
xxox

P.S. In case we are unable to go on elective (always the possibility of re-sits...well, money is still going for a good cause!) but fingers crossed and prayers that it wont happen and we will trek to mount everest basecamp wohooo!!

 

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