By JESSE GRAHAM
HEALESVILLE’S Jeremy Shub will abseil more than 100 metres next month, climbing down 27 storeys to raise money for children in foster care.
Mr Shub will be taking part in Anglicare Victoria’s Altitude Shift, an abseiling event to raise money for their foster care programs, on the last weekend of May.
On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 May, participants will abseil down Melbourne’s St James Building, a total drop of 113 metres.
Mr Shub, an Anglicare employee, entered the event with co-workers Damien Litchfield and Amanda Exley, and said he signed up for two reasons.
“One, I think it’s a great cause,” he said.
“I work with foster kids and I work with some workers who are supporting foster kids, and I work with parents who have foster kids – these kids have really hard lives, they’ve been bruised and damaged by people around them … and I would love them to be supported, and cared for, and nurtured, and able to grow and heal.”
He said the other reason was that the climb sounded like an adventure.
“I love abseiling, and I like to do things I haven’t done before,” he said.
He said the money raised through the event would support children living in foster care, who “have been dealt a bad hand”, and could start conversations among families about becoming foster carers.
“I’d love it if we could shine some light, and send some care and love to these young people,” Mr Shub said.
Altitude Shift participants pay $150 to register for the event, and must fund-raise $850 to secure their spot in the abseil.
Entries are open for anyone over the age of 16, with prizes on offer for most funds raised and best dressed.
For more information, visit www.altitudeshift.org.au – to donate to Mr Shub’s fund-raiser, search his name in the “sponsor a friend” section of the website.
