Adventurer Tom reaches for the top
AYOUNG adventurer is preparing for the trip of a lifetime as he aims to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of charity.
Tom Lynch, from Gawsworth, is part of a 28-strong team from Loughborough University to embark on the challenge for the charity ‘Hope for Children’, which champions the belief that every child deserves a childhood.
The team will also be visiting a project in Tanzania that is helping to educate some of the East African country’s 437,000 street and working children, many of whom are refugees from neighbouring countries.
Former King’s student Tom, 20, is currently studying Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University and wants to work either in the food or pharmaceuticals sectors. He developed his passion for adventure at King’s and was inspired by a King’s expedition to Namibia in 2014, when a group of pupils worked on a community project to build a pipeline to carry fresh water to a remote village in the bush.
Tom, who has also completed the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, said: “I love a challenge and this is a cause that I simply could not turn my back on.”
The trek is six days up, but then two days down, the mountain and Tom is already in training.
He is aiming to raise at least £3,000 for the charity and to fund his passage, and has so far accumulated £2,000 through a combination of coffee mornings, car boot sales and a stall at the Treacle Market.
To donate towards Tom’s venture go to loughboroughkilimanjaro. everydayhero. com/ uk/loughboroughclimbs-kili-2017.
For more information about the charity go to hope-for-children.org.