Young Offaly student to climb Ireland's highest mountain for charity

Twelve-year-old Liam York, a student at Tullamore Educate Together National School, will climb Carrauntoohil - Ireland's highest mountain - on April 2 next, raising money to help Operation Kindness Mexico to build the Yucatan Kindness School - a youth education and permaculture project based in the Mayan towns of Tekax and Oxkutzcab. 

The project aims to support local children and young people to care for themselves, for each other, and for the planet.

Built using local ecologically sound materials and using traditional Mayan techniques, the Kindness School and permaculture project will act as a centre for children (and their parents) from local communities to rediscover indigenous farming practices and learn new permaculture techniques which can then be utilized on their own land.

Five local communities will be involved and they will share the harvests/produce between them all.

The centre will also offer the kind of projects Operation Kindness Mexico have previously provided including early childhood development, mindfulness sessions, kids yoga classes and breakfast clubs.

If anyone would like to sponsor Liam in this mammoth challenge and support this wonderful grass-roots community project, they can donate on his JustGiving page https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/liam-climbs-carrauntoohil-2022