BT Red Nose Day Desert Trek – Day 4

Trek team exhausted and emotional on penultimate day

Forging on across the vast desert plains, with temperatures soaring to 48 degrees, emotions run high on the penultimate day of the trek. It’s been the hardest day so far, by far – but with the final push still to come, will they all make it to the end?

The team are heading towards a sight camp where tomorrow they will meet people living within the desert region who will be able to get treatment for the conditions that are causing them to lose their sight.

The celebrity team’s incredible efforts will raise money to help people living unimaginably tough lives both across Africa and the UK, and in particular they will be highlighting the issue of sight. Money they raise will go to Comic Relief projects which include those that help to prevent thousands of people in Africa from going blind or contracting terrible eye conditions like trachoma, something which affects many people living in the region where the trek is taking place.

Every minute, a child goes blind somewhere in the world and the effect is truly devastating. Tragically, up to fifty per cent of all children who lose their sight will die within two years. What makes these figures even more astonishing is that eighty per cent of all blindness is preventable and just £5 could pay for a sight-saving operation for someone in Africa who’s suffering from a debilitating eye condition called trachoma. Please donate now.

The team have been spurred on by Monday’s announcement that the BT Chat For Change Day on Friday 18th February has so far raised a whopping £203,000 for The BT Red Nose Desert Trek. On behalf of its customers, BT donated 1p to Comic Relief for every call made from a BT home phone line as well as every call made from a BT payphone. Plus they donated 25p for every call to BT’s Directory Enquiry Service 118500 from any landline or mobile.