Barry Pakes

Trip:
My Fundraising Goal: 18,000 CAD
Total Raised To Date: 1,055 CAD
Remaining: 16,945 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 Israeli 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:

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!

Sponsor Barry