Thank you for visiting my fundraising page.

Being an unorganised-type, I completed my six mile walk today (Saturday 17 June) and amazingly still have enough energy (just) to design this page! Though I've just had a nice bath and am all ready to go to bed... 

But don't worry, you can still sponsor me.

I walked with about 25 other people in a big circle starting and finishing in Gargrave in the Yorkshire Dales which meant I even did a little tiny bit of the Pennine Way.

The money I'm raising by doing this walk will be used for Oxfam's East Africa Food Crisis Appeal and for longer-term development projects.

Very poor rainfall throughout 2005 has created the worst drought in East Africa since 2000. Eleven million people are now facing a serious food crisis. Huge numbers of animals have died and people are becoming destitute.

Oxfam is already helping 700,000 people in Kenya, Somalia and tanzania, through:

• food distribution
• cash-for-work
• creating water bore holes
• school feeding
• trucking of water
• de-stocking (buying livestock at a fair price), 
• veterinary services 

Please make a donation online. Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor us: Oxfam will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

A BIG thank you for your support.

Lucy