Josh Symonds

Josh's fundraiser for Emergency Services Aid Charity, OP ZEPHYR 2024

Fundraising for Emergency Services Aid Charity
£3,000
raised of £3,000 target
OP ZEPHYR 2024, 11 September 2024

Story

Hello and welcome!

Our mission, as part of a national UK team shall deliver essential and much needed emergency vehicles and equipment. Where to? Gambia of course!

Operation Zephyr 2024, Task Force Sirocco is our current operation to send 25 emergency vehicles and 83 volunteers through Europe, down the West Cost of Africa to Gambia! We will also be taking as much medical, firefighting, policing and rescue equipment as we can. But did you know we also support schools by providing supplies such as textbooks? 

Why Gambia? To keep things simple, Gambia is a small country with only a fraction of a budget to spend on essentials compared to the UK. A partnership has been formed with ESAC and Gambia.

When I say essentials, ESAC in 2022 managed to increase their fire engine fleet by 50% from 12 - 18.

I will be helping the people of The GAMBIA set up a well-equipped and functional emergency response service, which will help the local communities get faster treatment and prevent serious medical complications.

These vehicles are crucial in saving lives and in the UK we can often take this for granted.

So the £3000 target is to be used to acquire and purchase the vehicle. Then our team of emergency service volunteers including myself (NHS, Police, Fire Service, Military) shall then drive these vehicles all the way to Gambia directly.

Please feel free to read more information on the ESAC website.

https://emergencyservicesaidcharity.com/our-past-aid-missions

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Total raised
£3,000.00
+ £605.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£3,000.00
Offline donations
£0.00

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