Ed Stafford became the first man to walk the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He walked for:
860 days
He started on 2nd April 2008 and finished in August 2010. No-one had ever done what he attempted.
I would like to say a massive thanks in advance if you are going donate to one of the charities. Take your pick out of the five below – or better still sponsor more than one – just follow the links to the fundraising websites below. Please give as much as you can afford! Thank you…
Rainforest Concern is intrinsic to the essence of the journey and helps to protect threatened areas of land within the Amazon Basin. Rainforest Concern was established as a registered charity in 1993 to protect the world’s tropical rainforests and the incredible biodiversity they contain, together with the indigenous people who still depend on them to survive. Donate Now >>
Action for Brazil’s Children provides a critical service to poor children in Brazil and is committed to creating experiences which will enable these children to grow and develop in a healthy supported environment. With your support these children can enjoy a more hopeful future. Donate Now >>
Project Peru is a small, lively totally voluntary charity offering food, clothes, shelter, education and fun to the children who live in their refuge in the desert shanty towns of Lima,.Peru. They also give ongoing direct and practical help to communities, women’s cooperatives and soup kitchens both locally and in the interior of the country. In the UK , as well as event-based fundraising, they raise awareness of development issues. Donate Now >>
Cancer Research needs no introduction. So many of our families have been broken up by this disease. Ed’s father Jeremy died of cancer in 1999 at the age of 56. It had a huge impact on Ed and if he succeeds in this journey he would like to dedicate it to his father. Donate Now >>
There are 1/4 million ME sufferers in the UK. At best ME can be described as presenting flu-like symptoms. At worst people are bed bound, unable to wash or feed themselves or comb their hair. For a long time now it has been recognised by The World Health Organisation as a physical illness, often resulting from a viral infection but its causes are not yet known. Ed’s mother Ba is Vice Chairman of The ME Association and feels passionate about medical research With funding the ME Association is working towards the setting up of a brain and tissue bank to investigate the causes. Donate Now >>
