Get The Team To The Summit

When Lea Turner organised a charity fundraiser to Tanzania, she was excited to raise money for Hope4. Lea quickly gained the support of 22 people who also booked in full on a trip of a lifetime to change the lives of the poorest people in Moldova for the charity, led by Chris Lomas, who founded the charity to help Orphans and refugees.

On Friday the team including Lea and Chris received an email from the event organiser informing them that nothing had been paid for over the past 9 months by him, leaving the team who were in or travelling to Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro in the lurch (to say the least).

Since then, everyone in Tanzania has had to find $2000 USD (£1600) to pay for their hotels, and a new company to ensure they can climb Kilimanjaro in aid of Hope4 with the right equipment, medicine, emergency resources, guides, transport, food and everything else needed.

The team are 100% going to do this in aid of Hope4, but due the additional costs, they have had to take a loan to cover their costs as everyone paid for this out of their own pockets, to try and do something good, and raise money.

We are asking people to donate to help the team recoup the costs they have lost due to the company not paying for a single thing, and to relieve them of the stress when they come back down Kilimanjaro. Many of the team have used their last savings, holiday fund, and emergency savings to pay again.

Please help us relieve our amazing volunteers' anguish, emotional stress and show that together people will help them achieve what they went to do….. raise money for Hope4. It’s not fair that people are now in debt to have tried to do something nice.

(The above photo was taken on a training day in Wales for the Kilimanjaro hikers)