Hakim Climb Mt. Kinabalu for raising BIBD Alaf Programme
My son and I will be climbing Mt
Kinabalu this Sunday with small group of friends. This is the highest mountain
in the region just above 4,092 meter of sea level. Given that I am 49 years old,
this would be a tough challenge for me to conquer the mountain. My son Hakim, 15 years old is the youngest team member and still study in Chung Hwa Middle School Brunei. Together with us are Dr. Muhamad Fahmi, Mohamed Faiz Amar, Affizan and Hairul Nazim Saleh.
As someone who loves jungle trekking and hiking, I always enjoy
the scenic view and cool breath the of mountain. This time around I would like
to see how the view looks like from the top peak of mountain is. I would
imagine the difficulties that I have to endure for approximately 7 hours up to Panalaban base-camp and another 4 hours to low peak and not to forget the descending from mountain.
Thin air, change of weather, the steepness of trail, altitude sickness is the
main challenge to overcome. I don’t know what to expect to be honest! However,
I have been doing reasonable ‘training’ for last couple of months by hiking at
local Tasik Lama trail during weekend, brisk walk/jogging early morning before
work and cycling as part of cross training. Not easy to juggle around work and
training.
We are doing only for one purpose;
to raise money for BIBD ALAF (http://bibd-alaf.org/). As an expatriate, I embrace this initiative to
support the local educational needs and of underprivileged students in Brunei
until they graduate. There are children out there who unfortunate due to
different of circumstances that need help from us. It would be such a waste of
talent should they have not received adequate resources to become asset to the
country. Therefore, I’m taking up this mountain challenge out of my comfort office-life
to replicate how hard for certain children to secure their future with poverty
and illiteracy. I’ll keep in mind this on every ascending step enroute to the
peak.
As for Hakim, he hope to give an excellence motivation values and inspiring his friends to be risk takers and challenge them to go out from their comfort zone.
The money raised will be used by Bank Islam Brunei Darulsalam- BIBD for the ALAF programme. Please donate generously. Your donation will keep
us going and change life of underprivileged children! We target to raise $4,000.
Please donate generously by click
following links http://bibd-alaf.org/donate-to-alaf/
SirNoordin
Brunei
Thank you for those who support us and generously donated at ALAF.
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