I will be embarking on a 7 day trek in Northern Kenya, raising much needed funds for MEAK’s (Medical and Educational Aid to Kenya) medical missions. MEAK organizes and funds medical and surgical missions in the fields of ophthalmology, orthopedics and pediatric cardiac surgery. A dollar goes a long way with MEAK and 98% of all donations go directly to providing free medical care to the needy. They have carried out over 70 medical missions, providing over 7,000 surgical procedures. However, it is getting ever more difficult to raise the funds. Therefore, I am posting this notice to ask you to consider giving a donation to help support MEAK’s work in Kenya and in spirit to accompany me on my journey in spirit.

My journey begins in Nairobi where I will fly to Waso Ronga, which is on the southern slope of Mount Nyiru in the North of Kenya, just south of Lake Turkana.  I and seven other trekkers will observe an eye mission performed by MEAK’s medical team. MEAK is the only charity that does this kind of outreach in the bush in Northern Kenya attending to the needs of those peoples that get very little attention from the government.  Under Helen Douglas-Dufresne’s lead we will then walk for 5 days through elephant and zebra country meeting both the Samburu and Rendille people. Our trek ends in Ngurnit with a flight back to Nairobi.  We try to avoid the blistering heat so we wake at 5:30 AM and start our walk at 6 AM.  We walk 7 hours a day with an hour break for breakfast covering on average 18 miles at least a day. That will be a total of 90 miles.  

Please give what you can.

I have been supporting Meak for four years and I have witnessed their life changing work. I have spend time in Kenya as a teenager and the country and their people hold a special place for me. There is no national health system in Kenya so when you are poor you are on your own. Anything you give will make a difference. 

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