It’s been almost exactly a year now since Tom and Kyle completed their epic journey to climb self-supported 10,000 vertical feet to arrive at the Mount Everest base camp (17,000 ft) carrying Cape Falcon canoes. Tom and Kyle undertook this feat of brutal endurance to raise awareness for mental health issues and also to raise money for the construction of a brand new women’s mental health treatment center and shelter in Kathmandu Nepal.
I’m incredibly proud to announce that they have raised $100,000 of their $150,000 goal and construction on the center has begun. These services are absolutely vital in a country that has no social safety net and some extremely regressive attitudes towards mental health.
As someone with a chronic neuroinflammatory illness that dramatically affects brain function and also with a sibling who died as a consequence of mental health issues, the subject is personal for me, which is why we donated cash and canoes to make this happen. Kyle and Tom believe that all of our lives are in someway touched by mental illness and the canoes they carry are a symbol of the extra weight that adds to so many lives.
If this issue matters to you consider going to their website and making a donation that will directly go to constructing the treatment center. Kyle and Tom are taking no money out of this fund and in fact they paid for the entire trek out of their own pockets. Check out Kyle and Tom at The Weight We Carry and please donate. Your money makes a huge difference in the lives of people who have nowhere else to turn.
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