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Triple Challenge Marks EMMS Anniversary

Edinburgh-based Christian charity EMMS International is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year with a special fundraising event, the TriMalawi Challenge.

The charity, which usually runs a Cycle Malawi challenge, has this year added kayaking Lake Malawi and hiking the Mulanje Massif in the south of the country. The challenge will take place from August 20-29.

EMMS International was founded in 1841 as the Edinburgh Association for Sending Medical Aid to Foreign Countries to “circulate information on medical mission; help other institutions engaged in the same work and assist as many Missionary stations as their funds would permit.”

The name was changed in 1843 to The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. Among its earliest members was the great Scottish missionary explorer Dr David Livingtstone. The charity currently works in India, Nepal and Malawi.

This year, participants’ sponsorship money will support a local health care project at Mulanje Mission Hospital in southern Malawi and will help reduce the burden of malaria by funding an indoor residual spraying programme which has proven to reduce cases of child patients by 75%, as well as funding a health program that helps to reduce the transmission of HIV from mother to child by half.

Each participant will pledge to raise £3,100 for EMMS. This sponsorship includes flights, accommodation, bike hire, food and transfers. Registration is £199 if you sign up by Sunday (January 31), £249 thereafter; and everyone who registers will be entered into a prize draw for a four-day safari trip in Malawi or Zambia.

For more information or to sign up visit www.emms.org/trimalawi or call 0131 313 382.


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