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UK-based XL Member Molly Bedingfield will jump for Global Angels to raise funds for street kids and orphans in Nepal and throughout Asia. Touted as the world’s highest ever charity tandem sky dive, Molly will leap out of a small aircraft at 29,500 feet with Mount Everest as the back-drop!

Read on for Molly’s e-mail to the XL Marketing Team on her progress. Way to go, Molly!

Molly:
Hi Ian!

Through a series of skydives over the next 3 years, our Angel SkyDive Team aim to collectively raise $1 million to go to children’s projects in Nepal and other Asian countries. We will also build awareness of the tremendous challenges these children face. We will be sponsoring new school buildings, mobile health clinics, building orphan homes, providing education and food for orphans and street kids, and clean water in Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Philippines and Burma.

Tomorrow I start the 6 day trek into the Himalayas. Thirty others from all over the world will also jump from 29,500 ft. A few others are also part of the Angel SkyDive Team, like Per Wimmer, Derek C, Peter Baker. We have some very experienced and hunky tandem masters accompanying us. It’s their experience that we will be totally dependent on, especially those of us who have never skydived before, as the jump will be especially intense at such a high altitude.

Over the last few days, my “terror” of jumping is gradually being replaced by the excitement of connecting with the street children and orphans in Nepalese projects. Since arriving the adventures began almost immediately. I arrived minus Matt Robinson, filmmaker for Global Angles and also my daughter Natasha’s new fiancé, and our luggage only turned up yesterday.

Yesterday we had to ford several rocky rivers to visit a mobile child health clinic in a remote area in the mountains. On the way back, we forded an especially deep part of the river and the jeep got completely stuck , taking about 15 men and ourselves to push it out. My job at the end was to sit above the left front wheel with one of the men to help add traction to the wheels. I must admit fording rivers in a jeep totally added to the adventure and the scenery was gorgeous with waterfalls coming down the surrounding cliffs. It reminded me of the fun adventures my Dad used to take my brother and I on in his land rover while we were children in New Zealand.

Reading about the tremendous opportunity to help the children of Nepal helps understand why I am taking part in the Everest Sky Dive Challenge. High and Wild, the company organising the SkyDive generously donated Matt and my places on the SkyDive in the hope Global Angels would be able to raise $1 million over the next three years through the SkyDives. Nigel Gifford, OBE, is the Director of High and Wild and also a member of our dynamic International Advisory Board. Through sponsoring me on my SkyDive page, you are literally sponsoring the children in Nepal and Asia.

If you have given, thank you so much. If you haven’t yet, here is your chance to “earn your wings” alongside me as we give 100% of funds raised to the children’s projects.

Step up to support (http://www.globalangels.org/fundraiser/MollyBedingfield) Molly in her dive as they aim to raise $1 million for the children, and follow her trek and sky dive!