Laura's fundraising hike for Orphans

Hi everyone and welcome.

Orphans Aid international is hosting a fundraising hike of the amazing Tongariro Alpine crossing on the 6th of November. I will be hiking 19.4 km for this amazing cause and would appreciate your support.

Working with children every day as part of my job means the work that Orphans aid international does hits close to home. Children deserves to be safe, happy and to have a place to call home. Every day I see the innocence of a child, their kindness, their joy and love they portray.

Orphans aid works hard to help children in unsafe and unhealthy environments and places them into homes and families that would love them and give them the best possible start at life. They help children all over the world including New Zealand.

UNICEFF states that currently there is about 153 million orphans world wide and every day about 5,700 more children become orphans. This is heartbreaking and you can help make a difference to these children's lives.

Please help support this cause and help me reach this goal.

To make it a bit more fun for you, I have been thinking of ways I can get myself fitter for this walk between now and the 6th Nov.

I have decided that every day I will skip for 2 min (I realised recently that I forgot how to skip, so this will be fun), I will go climb some stairs as well.

I have made an instagram account for you to keep track of my progress go follow me and you will be able to give me a challenge to do for your donation.

https://www.instagram.com/laurabackhouse9/

Thank you

Together we can conquer the world!