Please support me in my challenge. It is a challenge that is incredibly close to my heart and a challenge that I have wanted to do for years - no matter how crazy.

At the end of September, we have a team of 20 going from the UK to Romania to work on a project to help dogs in Mihailesti public shelter. We have team travelling from other parts of Romania to join us too. During our trip, I will be spending the night in a cage in the public shelter.

I have been going into public shelters, and public kill shelters in Romania for over 7 years. They exist because the national government policy is capture and euthanise after 14 days. This is how Romania is trying to control the stray dog population. The world can see it isn't working, yet still they refuse to change their policy to neutering stray dogs.

Public shelters across Romania range from reasonable care, to horrific abuse - yet they have one thing in common, and it is clear in my mind that these shelters are proof that no dog should spend it's life in a cage. Before you step out of the car on arrival, the sound of the barking and screaming of the dogs is overwhelming and the stench as you step out is eye watering. Different shelters, but always the same smell. Entering inside, my heart is always in my stomach, knowing that there will be at least one dog that will break my heart and soul to pieces.

We have been rescuing dogs from these shelters, and many of them, kill shelters for years. Sometimes taking 10 or 15 dogs out, other times just one or two. In the gallery of this campaign is just a tiny handful of photos - we have saved literally over 1,000 dogs from these places of hell. Every single time we visit, there are puppies there without their mum. Tiny, crying, in cold cages and scrabbling and crying at the bars for us to take them out. These are often the puppies abandoned by irresponsible owners, or victims of a government policy that prefers not to neuter the stray dogs. Hundreds of thousands of puppies are being born in Romania still, and so many end up in these shelters.

At some stage after leaving any public shelter, I take time out for reflection, and tears as the sounds ring in my ears, the crying the barking. I always wonder what happens at night - if one wakes and barks, do the hundreds of dogs join in? does it scare the other dogs, do the dogs fight? Do the dogs feel alone, scared in the damp harsh cold cages.

Well by the end of September I will find out. I am spending the night in a cage at Mihailesti public shelter in Bucharest. A night that will no doubt be sleepless, as the cages are shorter than the length of my body, and that smell, the one consistent with every public shelter will seep into my pores, the way the puppies crying will break my heart.

I would like to raise £2,000 for my Challenge, and I want to use this towards a neuter campaign in November this year (at a cost of £20, this is 100 neuters) - I want my experience to stop other puppies being born unwanted, abandoned and ending up in hell. If i can spend a night in the cage in a hall with 100 dogs, then I can certainly raise donations to neuter another 100.

Please, please support me and help me to raise awareness of the sheer atrocity of so many puppies still being born unwanted, and ending up in public shelters. Born to die.