Every day a Chechen life is lost to a devastating but utterly preventable disease. Tuberculosis has taken hold amid the worsening humanitarian situation in the war-torn region of Chechnya. MARCCH has decided to combat this disease. With your help, we intend to turn the trend on its head and save one Chechen a day. With cheap vaccines and early diagnostic tools, we can fight this illness that claims the old and the young alike and deliver a brighter future to the people of Chechnya.
This is why we have launched a TB appeal so that we can help people on the ground and eradicate this illness before it gets any worse. We have set a target of £10,000 and with your generous donations we can supply the early diagnosis kits, the vaccines and the blood tests that save lives and deliver preventative treatment. MARCCH thanks you for your generosity in the past, but requests that you give just a little bit more. All donations will make a real difference.

MARCCHs Treasurer and Secretary, John Dorken, successfully completed the fundraising trek he undertook in the High Andes, raising in the process some £6000 all told. He would like to extend his thanks to all who contributed - friends, family, colleagues and a number of tyre and rubber companies - for their support. John found the whole trek pretty challenging. The first leg - the Inca Trail - was an excellent warm-up. It was no doddle - he had to get over a pass of 4200 metres on the second day, which was quite exacting. But the weather was excellent and the views and the Inca sites along the route were spectacular. But the second leg - the circuit around Ausangate, a 6300 metre mountain, - was a different kettle of fish. Most of the trek was at altitudes of over 4500 metres and he had to cross two passes of well over 5000 metres. It was very cold and to make matters worse it snowed every day he was up at these heights, even though it was supposed to be the dry season! Still he survived to tell the tale and thanks to the generosity of his sponsors it will be possible to provide much more help to the children we support.