Climb 4 SHALVA
Barry Pakes
Barry Pakes
Trip:My Fundraising Goal: 15,000 CAD
Total Raised To Date: 15,738 CAD
Exceeded my goal by: 738 CAD
If you made it to this webpage, you know that I’ll be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to support Shalva – the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities.
Thank you for considering making a donation. Canadians need to raise $18,000 – and I’m the only Canadian - so anything will help. Shalva is a very worthwhile charity, as you can read below or go to their website (https://www.shalva.org/). But if you’re short on time and have the means to make a tax deductible donation please do so. Multiples of $18 ($180 preferred) work very well with my goal!
While I’ve never had a bucket list, Osama Bin Laden made me miss Climbing Kilimanjaro in 1998 so I’ve wanted to do this for some time (also read below).
About Shalva
Shalva is an outstanding organization that provides transformative care to thousands of individuals with disabilities, and support to their family members. Shalva provides leading-edge therapies, inclusive educational frameworks, social and recreational activities, employment training, independent living, respite programs regardless of religion, ethnic background or financial ability. Your donation will help Shalva continue its incredible work.
Why Kilimanjaro
In the summer of 1998 I was in the south of Ethiopia working as a medical student. My travels took me to Kenya, and I was in Nairobi on Friday August 7th - the day Osama Bin Laden bombed the US Embassy there and in Dar Es Salam. That shabbat was a transformative experience with the Israeli Urban Search and Rescue team and the Jewish community of Nairobi…inspiring me to learn more about disaster management, and a then a 20+ year career in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and then COVID and all that.
But, that summer, I missed the opportunity to Climb Kilimanjaro. Some time later, while travelling thru Masai Mara, I happened upon a 75 year old man who was planning on climbing Kilimanjaro. So I took it all in stride and figured I’d have lots of time to come back some day and climb Kili with my father. Dr. Pakes senior (the male one) can still make it up Har Herzl, but not quite 10 days and 5,985m of Kilimanjaro, so I’ll need to climb without my dad, but with Shalva.
Thank you for your support!
All Sponsors:
| Shechar Dworski | 180 CAD | Good luck! |
| Calli Citron | 54 CAD | Wishing you a great and safe trek ! Way to go ! |
| Nora Zwingerman | 72 CAD | |
| נטלי גאר | 500 ILS | בהצלחה! תחזור בשלום! |
| Aaron Katchen | 180 CAD | Hatzlacha rabbah! |
| Annette Perlmutter | 54 CAD | Good luck and be safe!! |
| Danny Pivnick | 281 CAD | Good luck Barry! |
| Ann David | 54 CAD | Chazak! Chazak!! With you in spirit!! |
| Natalie Gar | 180 CAD | Ditto to Brenda's message-Don't die! Behatzlacha! |
| Jonathan and Tania Samson | 500 CAD | Even when it feels hard remember the view from the Summit will be worth it |
| Jon and Ellise Gasner | 180 CAD | Have the best time! Awesome! |
| Ruth & Jeff Waldman | 72 CAD | Go Barry go!!! |
| Dikla and Michael Weitzner | 118 CAD | Good luck |
| David and Dana | 54 CAD | Always reaching new heights! |
| Shayna Miller | 50 CAD | Please come back with all your toes! |
| Rebecca Davids | 72 CAD | Safe travels! |
| Barbara Schnier | 100 CAD | Make sure you hold on tight... |
| Cécile Bensimon | 180 CAD | B’hatzlacha! Altitude sickness is real. |
| Manisa Jiaravuthisan | 118 CAD | Way to go Barry! Hope everything goes smoothly. |
| Mark and Naomi Satok | 118 CAD | Best of Luck! Yasher Koach! |
| Bernie Moskoff | 200 CAD | Mt Kili is not dead, just dormant Barry! If you hear rumbling... |
| Gil Gross | 240 ILS | Yishar koach Barry! |
| Liann Granovsky | 180 CAD | |
| anonymous | 180 CAD | |
| Esther and Bentzi Shor | 100 CAD | Kol Hakavod and good luck! Enjoy the climb and the experience! |
| Kevin Beigel | 180 CAD | I think I may have left something at top. Maybe you can bring it back for me? A truly life changing experience! Enjoy every second of it and remember …. Pole Pole! |
| anonymous | 100 CAD | |
| Danny Pivnick | 180 CAD | Good luck Barry! |
| Nadine Papernick | 118 CAD | Go Barry Go! B'Hatzlacha from your old locker neighbour at CHAT! |
| Ilan Barda and Atarah Grysman | 180 CAD | Way to go, Barry! |
| Mark Ross | 9000 CAD | Reach for the stars! |
| Katchen Family | 180 CAD | |
| anonymous | 1000 CAD | Good luck! Hope it goes well. |
| David Emerson | 180 CAD | Good luck Barry! |
| Josh & Ilana Phillipson | 100 ILS | What Brenda said :) |
| Dovid Zlochower | 180 CAD | |
| Karen Rosenstein | 180 CAD | Way to go, Barry! |
| Deron Brown | 118 CAD | מזל טוב! |
| Steve Frenkiel | 180 CAD | Good luck! |
| anonymous | 180 CAD | Please come back safe so this can be a happy chapter of the book! |
| Brenda Weitzner | 180 CAD | Please dont die! We love you! |
