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Some of you won't know, but back in 2022, 11 of us decided to climb Africa's highest mountain to raise money to start LionAid's project in Merrueshi, Kenya. We raised enough money to get that project started and we are still raising money today to keep the project moving forward. The project addresses the human/wildlife conflict that exists in rural Africa where there are wild predators. 

I am proud and delighted to say that since the project started, not a single lion has been killed in retaliation for attacks on community livestock ( and this was an area of high retaliatory killings before we started the initiative). And because we also equip individual households with an electric light ( as well as placing blinking lights around the village boundary fences), children are doing better at school as they can now do their homework, cataract problems amongst the community have reduced greatly because they are no longer using toxic kerosene lamps,   and the quality of life for rural households has improved enormously.

But there is a lot more still to do as we need to equip many more villages with these lifesaving lights. Please help us by DONATING to allow us to expand the project.

But before I finish this update, I will share with you all the enormity of the challenge we undertook to conquer Africa's highest mountain.

We had a UK doctor climb with us and he did an amazing job at keeping us as fit as possible to complete the climb and reach Uhuru Peak, the summit of Kilimanjaro. He was also adept at taking videos and he has produced two fantastic videos documenting what we did with footage of us all on that epic climb. 

I am proud to say we did reach the summit and it is an experience that will remain with me forever.

Here is Part One of the two videos

 Here is the final part of our epic climb

Experience climbing Mount Kilimanjaro the easy way from your armchair!!!

I hope this might have inspired you to DONATE  to the project we are raising money for. You can add your much needed donation here. Thank you.