Perth to Sydney Thank You Camel Expedition Aims and Objectives
The Perth to Sydney Thank You Camel Expedition will leave Perth early 2013 to travel across the Nullabor, through the deserts of Western Australia and South Australia, across New South Wales and enter Sydney on the 22/12/2013, (Trishna and Krishna's Birthday), in support of Moira Kelly's Children First Foundation.
The camel trek will:
Take approximately ten months to complete
Cover approximately 4200kms.
Trek through some of Australia's remotest deserts.
Cross the Australian continent from the west coast to the east
coast.
Help some children with critical illnesses.
Involve corporations and Individuals in a fund-raising expedition.
Create awareness of the work done by the Children First Foundation.
Raise funds along the journey to assist a child in desperate medical need through the Children First Foundation.
Celebrate Trishna and Krishna's birthday (22/12/2013) and the birthday's of all children in need of life saving and life changing medical assistance.
Camelman Dreaming
Book:
Camelman Dreaming is the true story of
Australia's Last Great Camel Expedition.
Thirteen years to plan and two years to walk across Australia to reach the Royal Children's Hospital with a herd of camels.The Darwin to Melbourne Thank You Camel Expedition 2008-2009 arrived at the hosital to thank founder of the Children First Foundation, Ms Moira Kelly AO, for her life of changing and saving children's lives.
The expedition arrived at the hospital at the same time of the separation of conjoined twins,Trishna and Krishna.