For the past 19 years the 'Children of Fire International' charity has campaigned for children who have suffered horrific and life changing burns to have essential surgery and to regain a quality of life. LFB Fire Cadets have decided to support this charity and in turn help these children get the medical and emotional support they need and deserve.The charity has helped burns survivors to conquer mountains of the mind by a mix of exemplary surgery, innovative rehabilitation, camaraderie and tough love. The result is a group of young people from across Africa and some even further afield who are survivors. Victims no more. They include those who have won gold at the Paralympics, work as lawyers, study medicine, qualified as bakers and plumbers, and so many more stories of overcoming the odds. While all the physical challenges of missing fingers or limbs, of baldness or scars, are a perpetual reminder of what the children have been through, the biggest challenge every single day for ever, is social rejection for looking different.

The LFB Fire Cadets want to help raise money for Children of Fire International so it can be spent on immediate needs, to pay hospital fees where surgery cannot be obtained for free, and ultimately to run an international architectural competition to build a specialist hospital. It will be Chishamiso – Place of Miracles. The miracle will simply be that everyone who works there will be there because they want to be. Combining medical and academic excellence into an environmentally-friendly African hospital will allow the staff to repair and heal children that people wrongly think are too-damaged to repair. The charity needs to raise at least £35,000 to run the architectural competition. And after that the money for the land. And then the money for building, staffing and running the hospital. The first step towards raising this money is the 13 mile Children of Fire Monopoly Moonwalk being held on Saturday 12 September 2015. (and the following year on Friday 2 September 2016).

Our LFB Fire Cadets will be taking part in this walk across London and collecting donations en-route however any donations through this page would also be gratefully received. Please help us achieve our target and support the Children of Fire International in any small way you can. Thank you!