Ol' Painting Kili Expedition on front page of OCRF

I just noticed that a story on Ol’Painting Kilimanjaro fundraising expedition made to the front page of the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation website. And they also created a separate page about us. Thank you guys! We are only happy we could help somehow!

"Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure" presentation

Our PowerPoint presentation of "the Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure" expedition is ready. I will send it today to all of our dear sponsors and supporters. Hope you will enjoy it!

"Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure" completed

Thanks from the bottom of our harts to all people who supported and sponsored our “Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure” event!

We just returned from the expedition, still exhausted. We both made it to the top (just!). Honestly, if it was not for the charity and we did not get supprt of so many people we would quit few hundred meters before the summit. (I know it sounds like a cliché, but it is very much try!) The air is just so thin here! But our pain and tidiness will pass. We are so happy we made to the summit. Thanks everyone for supporting our cause and giving us this extra motivation!

I’ll set up a slideshow to report back to all our sponsors & supporters. But in a meantime I’ll share with you some of my favourite pictures from the expedition.

DAY 1 - Cloud ForestDAY 2 - MoorelandDAY 3 - View to Mavenzi Pick

DAY 5 - SummitDAY 5 - long day

DAY 5 -still a long way down

A friendship born on a climb

and last, but not least - our (and not only ours) support team

Ol’Painting Kilimanjaro fundraiser in ISTM newsletter & website

Warmest thanks to the always helpful team at the Institute of Strata Title Management for helping us to spread the work about our fundraiser to the members of ISTM through newsletter and website! We even got a dedicated webpage.

Thank you! We promise to do our best to reach the summit!

Our fundraiser’s first editorial

We got an approval of a first editorial for our “Mt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure” fundraiser!

Guys from the “Inside Strata” – magazine published by the Institute of Strata Title Management (ISTM) liked our story and will publish it in October or December issue. “Strata Living” is distributed to over 1,300 ISTM members. This is a good start!

Ol' Painting New Website

Ol’ Painting website received a funky makeover. We included lots of information about who we, what we do, some recent projects and testimonials. We created a page about our “Mt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure” fundraised. Now it is easy to just refer to it when talking to publishers or supporters what exactly are we doing.

Last few weeks were busy writing editorials and webpages about our fundraiser. It all has to be approved by the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation before we can use it. So we could not do much actually promoting our fundraiser. But hopefully everything will be finalised this week, so we can actually start working on raising funds.

Training for Mt Kilimanjaro climb

It’s not just a promotional work we have to do with our charity fundraiser “Mt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure”. We still have 5,896m high mount to climb!

We train 5-6 days a week. Our training include:

• Terrain running or cycling 3 times a week;
• Weight training twice a week;
• “power hill walking” – 5 time a week. We load our backpacks with 25-30kg dumbbells, put on our trekking socks and boots, and we go for a power walk up a down a very steep section of Riverview St at Lane Cove as quickly as we can. We do 5 laps up and down a street each day.

I wonder what residents think of these “bushwalkers” passing their windows 10 times within an hour!

Mt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure - officially started on September 1st

Our planning of Mt Kili for Ovarian Cancer Cure findraising officially started on September 1st!

Right now we are finalising our plan of actions, going through all paperwork with the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, negotiate a registration of a separate event with Everyday Hero site, developing branded stationary, emails and updating our website.

We are flat out with our painting work right now. So our fundraising will take a little free time left from our evenings and weekends. But it is very exiting!

Kt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure

I don't normally talk much about, but 3 years ago my mum was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She lived just 9 more months. It’s hard to watch a person you love dying! I sincerely hope that none of me readers will go through the same loss!

1 in 70 Australians women will develop ovarian cancer before the age of 85. Only 42% will survive after 5 years. So we decided to help to get this cure quicker!

In February 2010 our Ol’ Painting team – me and Oleksandra, will climb Mt Kilimanjaro to raise money for the Ovarian Cancer Research. At 5,896m (19,344ft), “Kili” is the highest pick in Africa and one of the world largest free-standing mountains. We promise to work our guts out, fight the weather, altitude sickness and anything else on our way to the top. In exchange we ask for your donation to the Ovarian Cancer Research!

I’ll post updates on fundraising, planning and training this blog for our sponsors and friends to read. Wish us a good luck!