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Local business owner and outdoor enthusiastic to climb highest mountain in Africa

‘Kili Climb for Kids’

 

Local business owner and outdoor enthusiastic to climb highest mountain in Africa

 

Kingston, ON - Leslie Myles loves to explore, learn, and embrace new challenges, whether it is in her professional world as the business owner of The Body Shop, with her family planning water excursions, or as a community-minded individual fundraising and volunteering for the Limestone Learning Foundation, Outward Bound, or her daughters’ schools.

 

Leslie’s personal and lifelong commitment to continually challenge herself physically, mentally, and emotionally will face the ultimate test when she joins twelve other Canadian women in her first attempt to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, in January 2009.  The Kili climb, however, goes well beyond the dream of completing a dream of a lifetime, because the women on this trek are climbing Kilimanjaro in support of Amani Children’s Home, a grassroots Tanzanian charity that rescues street children and orphans from homelessness and restores hope in their lives.

 

Leslie believes that this climb brings together many facets of her life. She believes that education provides hope and opportunity for a brighter future. A bright future she hopes she can help bring to the children who live at the base of the famous mountain. “It’s for a better world,” explains Leslie. “It all starts with the kids.”

 

Leslie will extend that gift of hope to children, by also dedicating this climb to the Limestone Learning Foundation, an organization that she has been volunteering with and supporting since its inception in 1999. “I am excited about walking through the clouds to see the world a top Mt. Kilimanjaro, while fundraising for two important initiatives, one at here at home, and one in the shadow of Kili,” adds Myles.

 

Since its founding by local Tanzanians in 2001, Amani Children's Home has rescued over 290 children from the perils of life on the streets, where children face a high risk of HIV transmission and malnutrition. Amani tries to help these affected children by offering them a safe home, attempting to reunite them with their families, and offering them a variety of educational opportunities.

 

The Limestone Learning Foundation is dedicated to providing support to schools for creative, innovative enhanced learning opportunities for students of the Limestone District School Board.  To date, more than $830,000 has been awarded to Limestone schools to support over 385 unique and extraordinary learning projects.

 

Leslie’s determination to continually challenge herself physically and emotionally while simultaneously helping children by climbing the tallest peak in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro will be an experience of a lifetime. “I am eager to walk through the clouds, and see the world,” concludes Myles. Please join Leslie in her journey to the top of the mountain, and down to the Amani Children’s Home.

 

 

Join Leslie’s Kili Climb for the Kids Team and sponsor a leg of the journey. All Friends of the Climb will receive a charitable tax receipt for a gift of any amount.

 

Partner - $250

Patron - $500

Leader - $1,000

Champion - $2,000

 

Please make cheques payable to Leslie Myles – Kili Climb, and may be mailed to

1046 Brawley Lane, Syndenham, ON K0H 2T0, or Limestone Health Consultants Inc./Kingston Body Management, 541 Day’s Rd., Kingston, ON K7M 3R8.

 

Additional information about either organization may be found at www.amanikids.org or www.limestone.on.ca/llf/.

 

For more information, please contact:

Leslie Myles

613.376.6968 (residence)

613.561.5024 (cell)

 

Phil Perrin, Managing Director

Limestone Learning Foundation

c/o LDSB Education Centre

613.544.6920, ext. 210

 

 

 

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