Love Hope Strength Foundation Announces African Pilgrimage: Kilimanjaro Rocks

The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international foundation dedicated to fighting cancer with existing resources in countries around the world, today announced plans for another musical journey, this time in East Africa. Dubbed “Kilimanjaro Rocks”, the 12 day journey, slated for September and early October of 2009, will include a lengthy trek to the summit of Africa’s highest mountain, camping in the solace of the Tanzanian wilderness, and visits with local cancer patients. The effort is the latest in a series of “Rocks” events that combine music, traveling and trekking to raise money and provide resources for those affected by cancer.

LHS recently made global headlines and built an international army of volunteers for their record-breaking hike and concert on Mt. Everest and musical trek to Machu Picchu, Peru. As with Everest Rocks, where LHS supporters bought Nepal its first mammography and internal radiation machines, and Peru Rocks, where funds raised lead to a mobile cancer care unit, LHS is dedicated to finding a practical and tangible use for monies raised that will help East Africans.

With headquarters in Denver and chapters in Dallas, the U.K., Peru and Australia, LHS is bringing support to its 6^th continent in less than 2 years time, providing critical funding and awareness for cancer centers worldwide.

• To inquire about joining Kilimanjaro Rocks email: kilimanjarorocks(at)lovehopestrength(dot)org
• For more information on LHS and how you can get involved, visit: www.lovehopestrength.org 
• To give gifts that support this and other initiatives, go to: www.lovehopestrength.org./shop
• To put a name of a loved one on a prayer flag to be hiked up Kilimanjaro go to: http://www.lovehopestrength.org/donate-prayerflag.php
  
  

More About Love Hope Strength

Founded by James Chippendale along with Mike Peters of The Alarm and with the love, hope and strength from legends in rock n' roll such as members of The Cult, B52s The Stray Cats, Gin Blossoms, Chuck Berry, The Fixx, Tokyo Police Club, Squeeze, Candlebox, Seether, Smithereens, Dick Dale, and acoustic genius Nick Harper, to high school bands, Nepalese folk singers and hundreds more, LHS has harnessed the power of music and the love, hope and strength of volunteers throughout the world to make a tangible difference in the fight against cancer.

LHS has traveled the globe to remote venues such as the base camp of Mt. Everest, the top of the Empire State Building, the summit of Mt. Snowdon and the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, using the universal language of music to purchase life saving equipment, spread awareness, promote early detection, and register people to the international bone marrow database.  

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