Kili climb in memory of Jon

In December 2007 Tim Hard’s brother Jon, 21, died of hypothermia while he was on a university skiing trip.

Before his death, Jon had spoken about his admiration of Mary’s Meals, leading his friends and family to set up a fund for the charity in his honour.

To help boost the fund, which receives regular donations and has allowed the charity to build a kitchen for Doroba School in northern Malawi and covered the cost of providing daily meals to all of its 760 pupils every year since 2008, Tim and his sister-in-law Katie Roberts have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Tim, who is originally from Leamington but now lives in Dubai, said: “I’ve done a bit of walking in the past and in 2011 I took on the Tough Guy challenge for Mary’s Meals as well.

“My brother really liked the charity and after learning about it I can see why,

“Jon really was the epitome of a promising young man taken too soon and if he was still here he’d probably be a very good teacher.

“I’m doing this to raise money for the 760 kids at the school who rely on their daily meals.

“It’s a simple idea really, feeding hungry children in school so they are encouraged to gain an education and involving empowering communities at the same time.”

Mary’s Meals was launched in Malawi in 2002 when its founder Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow met a young woman called Emma who was dying of Aids.

When he asked her 14-year-old son about his dreams in life the teenager said they were to have enough food to eat and to go to school one day.

For more information or to make a donation visit {httP;//www.justgiving.com/JonHard