Trekking to Petra for charity

This saturday Audley’s second charity trek starts in Jordan. Setting out from Wadi Feynan we will be walking for 5 days towards our final destination of Petra. During the day the group will hike across the terrain, rising from the low-lying Feynan through the southern mountains towards Petra, until 80km is negotiated and the group reaches the Red Rose City.

The trek is raising money for two charities: Friends of Conservation and the Al-Husein society fo the Habilitation/Rehabilitation of the Physically Challenged. Friends of Conservation is a charity that Audley have been working with for many years, and we offset all our staff flights through the charity. FOC is a conservation charity working internationally. We are particularly working with them currently on a bio-gas project in the Masai Mara. This project will create methane cooking gas from manure and water to eliminate the need for local women to collect firewood from the surrounding area, in a region where predators are plentiful.

The other charity is the Al-Husseine Society. This Jordanian charity work with physically handicapped children and adults. Their work includes physiotherapy, occupational therapy, othotics and they also have an early intervention programme which enables them to work with young children to prevent their disabilities from worsening.