Aliya - Benji & Akiva Tough Mudder 2024

UPDATE: Thank you all so much for your generous support to Aliya and helping me reach my target. Akiva has now agreed to join me! Please help him to reach his target so I can push him in the mud (and we can raise more for Aliya!!)

Do you want to join me in making a difference.....?

Additionally, do you want to see me try to run 10km through 20 obstacles including ice baths, electric shocks and lots and lots of mud...?

On Sunday 14th July I will be taking part in Tough Mudder.

I will be taking on this challenge to help bring awareness and support to the forever-growing challenges that the youth in our community are facing.

I'm raising money in aid of Aliya. Aliya has helped empower many young people to be able to face and overcome the challenges in their lives.

Every donation will help.

Aliya was set up in 2019 after 4 young tragedies. Since then, and especially post-covid with more challenging mental health issues emerging, the services Aliya provides are becoming ever more critical.

They provide therapy, support, interventions, and recovery programmes for youth over each week, numbering well over 150.

They are literally saving lives. Working at the sharp edge of youth work, regularly dealing with issues of abuse, suicide, addiction, trauma, etc. Their staff are dedicated around the clock to handling the highest levels of crisis and are often making life-and-death decisions.

Apart from outreach and therapy, they have set up a safe space for young people to meet, crash, chill, play eat, and provide emergency sleeping accommodations when necessary, in crisis. They have weekly events and programs and provide educational workshops for children and parents as well as suicide awareness to many in the education sector.

Aliya is inundated with requests from people who desperately need their help. The costs to run the centre and the programmes have shot up. Gas, electricity, fuel, staff, as well as therapy costs have all escalated. They don't want to turn anyone away. They desperately need more funds to match the demand.

The money raised will be used to help them provide further education, awareness, and adequate support for everyone who needs it. Please join me to help to give everyone in our community the opportunity and chance of a brighter and secure future.

Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause, which means so much to me