Katy Pilling, has just returned from the foothills of Kilimanjaro, where
she led a team of apprentices and staff
The trip was set up by the Remit as a prize for those apprentices that came top at Remit’s national awards.
In her day job Katy, works with apprentices across the country to make
sure they get the additional support they need to complete their
training. Her team provides training in functional skills such as
literacy, numeracy and communication, as well as social support for
those apprentices that need help tackling some of life’s barriers to
learning.
She was selected by Remit’s senior management team to lead the group of
apprentices, supported by her colleagues Sam Bold, Steve Knapp and
Louise Ward.
As part of the trip, the group spent time with workers from the Village
Education Project Kilimanjaro (VEPK). The charity, set up in 1994 by
Katy Allen MBE, teaches children and young people in villages on the
slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Remit has been supporting the charity for the past couple of years,
providing tools and resources to enable them to set up a new vocational
centre teaching motor mechanics.
The team learnt more about the charity and met the young people who
benefit. They also helped to plant trees, paint the new training centre,
and worked with local Mamas, finding out what life’s really like for
women running their homes in the rural villages.
Katy was so inspired by the trip, she has pledged to return to Tanzania
in September to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. She will be raising as much
money as she can for VEPK and the children and families it supports.
She said: “I’ve seen just how difficult the most simplest of tasks are
for the Mamas and the children, who are growing up in a different world
out there. One day it took an hour, just to make a cup of coffee. But
these people never complain, it’s just their life.
“What VEPK offers these children is a chance for an education, and to
learn vocational skills that will give them greater opportunities.
“I’m delighted to be a part of a company like Remit that is not only
training young people across the UK, but supporting an organisation like
VEPK to do the same for those children growing up in rural poverty in
Tanzania.
“I am aiming to raise £2,500 for the charity, and having seen first-hand
the good this can do, I am determined to achieve my target for VEPK and
the people it serves.”
To sponsor Katy, please visit her Virgin Money page at
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KatyPilling1, where you can also find out more about the VEPK charity.
from Remit, on a trip to
support a Tanzanian charity.
