Cross River Gorilla Project are a UK-based charity whose main aim is to help preserve the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla, particularly those in Cameroon, with less than 300 remaining today. 

However, they also aim to support the surrounding communities of the Lebialem Highlands in which the Cross River Gorillas live, and improve the lives of these socially and economically disadvantaged people. 

The rangers that do such a vital job in protecting the gorillas and other endangered species in the Lebialem Highlands, often cannot afford to send their kids to school. Just £60 can pay for the child of a ranger to attend school for 1 year. Any kind donations to CRGP will support the families of rangers and also go towards costs like bio-monitoring equipment.

So what exactly are we planning to do to deserve your hard earned cash?!

Well, firstly we (myself, my dad Oisin and brother Sam) are running 600km over a month as a team! 600km is  the boundary that roughly surrounds the Lebialem Highlands. The challenge officially started on 3rd March 2021, World Wildlife Day, and will run until 3rd April. So we have a month to run, jog, walk or stagger 600km between the three of us.

And if that's not enough for you?! I will also be climbing 830 flights of stairs in a bloody gorilla suit. 830 flights of stairs is roughly 2500m, the altitude where the gorillas live. I didn't actually start this until 9th March, leaving only 25 days to do the 830 flights of stairs. So I need to do on average 33.2 each day until the end of the challenge. Just to make it even harder and more embarassing for myself, I've chosen to do reps of the building where I live, from ground level to 7th floor, on an open stairway for all to see..

Sam may be doing his own personal challenge too. Probably not in a gorilla suit. Watch this space.

Please donate generously! Thanks very much in advance

The MacNamaras x