What is the Legs 11 Campaign about?
The Legs 11 Campaign is a fundraising activity for a registered Australian charity to raise money for great organizations that support disadvantaged and vulnerable women and girls and children in Nepal.
The Legs 11 Campaign is about us – and we encourage everyone to join us – challenging ourselves to do something a little bit personally uncomfortable or challenging using our legs for the month of November – it could be doubling leg day at the gym, organising a challenging group hike or bike ride, committing to walking 5km each day or even stopping waxing or shaving our leg hair, or something similar – and raising both awareness and funds.
The focus on our legs and doing something a little bit harder or more uncomfortable than usual with them – for just a short period of a month – is about us drawing our attention to the parallels between our lives and the lives of women and young girls in Nepal.
If we choose to do something challenging around personal care – like stopping waxing, shaving our legs hair for a month – it draws attention to the ease of our choices and the absence of choice for many women and girls in Nepal who don’t have ready or affordable access to hygiene products, adequate showers and toilet facilities and access to products and facilities to manage menstrual hygiene.
If we choose to do something physically challenging – like working our legs harder at the gym, walking or cycling – it draws attention to doing hard physical work for fun and health, not because our livelihood depends on like the Nepalese brick kiln workers or its essential to live, like the women in more remote rural who walk many hours for water or working on the farm – including young, old, sick, and pregnant.
Through the Legs 11 Campaign website you can enter register yourself or a team, create yourself a fun challenge share amongst your friends, get everyone involved and work those legs to support great work for women and girls who don’t have ready access to things many of us take for granted and make our lives safe and comfortable.
About The Charity
The Umbrella Foundation Australia (TUFA) was founded in 2013 and is a registered charity in Australia, supporting trafficked & vulnerable women and children and their communities in Nepal. TUFA has a track record of ensuring all funds raised actually get to the front line, to programs and activities that deliver results. The board and committee members are volunteers with our goal being 100% of all donations go to the designated programs. The Legs 11 Campaign is about us – and we encourage everyone to join us – challenging ourselves to do something a little bit personally uncomfortable with our legs – stopping waxing or shaving our leg hair/making every day leg day or many other ideas – and raising both awareness and funds for women and children in need.
Our Partners
TUFA partners with local organizations and NGOs/charities working on the ground in Nepal and with appropriate training and expertise, to ensure TUFA funds actually get to the people in need, programs actually deliver and delivery is done in the right way.
Our Patron
The patron of TUFA is renowned mountaineer Gavin Vickers. Gavin is a Hunter Valley local raised in Cessnock. He has summited Mt Everest twice as well as other peaks in Nepal and around the
world. He has a strong affinity with and commitment to Nepal.
Our Values
Do what you can when you can – even if we are small everything makes a
difference. Keep it simple and deliver. Always respect the fact you are a visitor in another country and culture.
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