Press Releases from HOPE

July 2010

2010 Fuji Climb Complete

From Erin Sakakibara,
HOPE International Development Agency board member and leader of the 2010 Charity Fuji Climb:
 
I am happy to report on the successful completion of the 2010 HOPE International Development Agency Charity Fuji Climb, sponsored by H&R Group. An enthusiastic group of 24 participants and 5 support staff from HOPE and H&R set off from Nagoya at 10:30pm on Friday, July 9. We arrived at the 5th station at around 3:30am and set out in time to greet the impending dawn shortly before 4am.
 
Though daunting and physically challenging, 23 out of the 29 climbers were able to summit! This included the youngest climber, Dymond Robinson, who is 11 years old and the youngest member of the charity climb to ever summit! As a fitting metaphor, each participant set out to climb Mt. Fuji, not only to challenge himself, but in order to raise money to help the people of Cambodia climb out of poverty.
 
Many of the participants asked their friends and family to sponsor their climb, thereby raising funds to promote projects for clean water in the Pursat region of Cambodia, where HOPE International Development Agency has many projects to promote sustainable livelihood development.
 
All in all, over 263,247 yen has been committed to these projects from funds raised through the climb.
 
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