Dementia Awareness Week

This week is Dementia Awareness Week, please watch and share the video above '5 things you should know about dementia' to help spread awareness.

Our first Video diary

Introduction

Hello, welcome to our blog, for those who don't know us already, Lisa is the one on the left and Sinini is on the right. We’re 2 friends from Canterbury in Kent. We became friends at the age of 6 and have decided to mark the fact that we have been best friends for 20 years by: -

•  Finding a challenge that was worthy for the occasion.
•  Finding something that wasn’t going to be easy, and was going to push us both to our physical and mental limits

But most importantly we wanted to…

•        Find an activity that involved raising money for a worthy cause.

After coming up with various ideas and suggestions, we ruled out many and decided on tackling the ultimate challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, on the 17th -27th January 2013. to raise money for a charity that we hold close to our hearts, The Alzheimers Society. 

The Alzheimer's Society charity does amazing work in helping & supporting people that have this illness and varying other forms of dementia all of which are awful degenerative diseases that affect the memory.

Alzheimer's and dementia are heart breaking diseases that not only affect the person that has the illness, but it really does have a massive emotional, draining and stressful impact on loved ones close to the sufferer. 

We have experienced this emotional drain and stress first hand and wanted to scale Mount Kilamanjaro as a tribute to the people that we know who have suffered both directly and indirectly from Alzheimers and Dementia.

So our Journey Starts here........ we will be posting photo's, links, videos of everything leading up to and after the climb. Hope you all enjoy following us, and if you would like to help raise lots of money for this Charity please sponsor us by following this link http://www.justgiving.com/Sinini-and-Lisa

Thank you x