Ian Kerr

Ian's Walk for Health in Africa

Fundraising for The Virtual Doctors
£3,261
raised of £2,000 target
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Camino del compostela route, 16 August 2019
The Virtual Doctors

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RCN 1129924
We use a smartphone app to to help save lives in Zambia & Malawi.

Story

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.  I'm raising funds for a charity that is making a difference, delivering a telemedicine service directly into rural areas in some of the poorest places on earth.  It's all about helping people being treated in local areas and avoiding long and uncomfortable trips, often walking or cycling, to distant hospitals as well as helping to educate isolated Clinical Officers.  To help I am embarking on my own long and uncomfortable staged walk to raise badly needed funds!

The charity is making great progress and with your help so am I! My long walk continues.  I will be spurred on in the knowledge that the charity needs more funds to expand the service.   Why, you may ask?  Well let me explain. I enjoy walking but, sadly, can see my walking days coming to an end as I have the beginnings of advanced arthritis, so it's a case of now or never perhaps! 


I have already completed the first leg of my challenge and am setting off on Leg 2 - the 80k Portugese part of the trip between 5 - 10 October.  I will be accompanied by Jenny.  

I want to raise money to help expand the clinics in which Virtual Doctors serve in Zambia and Malawi  and I am especially excited about the possibility of working in a new country, Kenya, if additional resources are forthcoming.

Now on this challenging trip I won't have a donkey,  a cycle or any other mode of transport besides my two creaking legs but I will have the  company of some good companions and will be motivated by the knowledge that I am making a difference to the lives of people in Africa with your support and enabling our wonderful volunteer doctors covering multiple specialisms (who now number over 100) to help too.

Please give generously! 

Ian and Jenny






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About the charity

The Virtual Doctors

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RCN 1129924
UK-based charity with a Zambian & Malawian operation. We use a simple Smartphone App to connect rural health care centres in Zambia and Malawi, with over 250 volunteer Doctors, based in the UK. The volunteer doctors offer advice to diagnose conditions, treat patients and prescribe medicine.

Donation summary

Total raised
£3,260.50
+ £455.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£2,510.50
Offline donations
£750.00

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