Chippenham businesswoman Liza Brooks has set herself a hectic travel itinerary – 34 countries in 28 days.
With carpenter friend Dale Knaggs, she has hit the road to raise money for a £6.1 million neonatal intensive care unit at Bath’s Royal United Hospital. Miss Brooks, of St Peter’s Cottages, Kington Langley, began raising money for the Forever Friends National Intensive Care Unit campaign after her nephew, Justin Clifford-Brooks, born weighing 2lb 7oz, was nursed to full health in the unit.
“When the nurse in the unit told me it costs around £1,000 a day to care for one baby, I decided I wanted to give something back,” she said.
The 8,000-mile European journey takes Scandinavia in the north and Turkey in the south. The pair set off on August 4 in an old Ford Mondeo estate bought from Miss Brooks’s parents and hope to complete the trip by the end of this month.
The appeal needs £1.5million to fund a larger unit.
To make a donation, visit www.justgiving.com/34 countries28days and you can follow the pair’s progress at http://lizabrookstrue.travellerspoint.com/
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