In 2027, I am stepping away from the security and familiarity of my life in the UK and beginning a year-long pilgrimage around the world.
This journey is about faith, service and giving.
For 30 years, my work has centred around helping people recover, heal and reach more of their potential. During this pilgrimage, I want to take that experience to children and communities who may never normally have access to this kind of support.
Along the way, I plan to visit orphanages, children’s homes and humanitarian projects in different parts of the world.
And I would love you to be part of it.

This is important.
I am not asking anyone to pay for my flights, accommodation, food or travel expenses.
I am funding my pilgrimage myself.
100% of the money raised through this fund will be used to help children and the projects caring for them.
Your donation is not funding my journey.
I am simply taking your generosity with me.
Some of the most meaningful experiences of my life were never planned.
Years ago, a chance encounter led me to an orphanage in El Salvador.
I met Maria and the children at REMAR and saw first-hand what one determined woman was doing with very limited resources.
More than 50 children depend upon that home.
I began supporting them financially following the healing work.
That experience stayed with me.
It made me ask a bigger question:
What if I could do this wherever I go?
Not simply travel through countries, but stop.
Meet people.
Listen.
Find the children who need help.
And do something practical.
As I travel, I will identify genuine needs within the children’s homes, orphanages and projects I visit.
Money raised may help provide things such as:
- nutritious food
- clothing and shoes
- urgent needs identified by those caring for the children
Wherever possible, donations will be given directly to the organisation responsible for the children or used to meet an identified need.
No money from this fund will be used for my personal travel expenses.
REMAR is where this mission began for me.
The orphanage cares for more than 50 children and also provides education for children from the surrounding community.
I have already committed my own ongoing financial support to help provide healthier food for the children.
We are also working towards larger projects that could dramatically reduce the orphanage’s running costs and allow more of its limited resources to be spent directly on the children.
I want this fund to be transparent.
Throughout the pilgrimage I will share:
Where I have visited.
Who we have helped.
What was needed.
What your donations paid for.
And, where appropriate, photographs and updates from the projects themselves.
I want supporters to be able to follow the journey and see their generosity becoming something real.
A meal.
Clothing
An opportunity.
Sometimes something relatively small can completely change a child’s day and sometimes it can change the direction of their life.
I don’t know every child I will meet yet.
I don’t know every place this journey will take me.
That is part of the pilgrimage.
I am leaving room to be guided towards the people and places where I can be most useful.
What I do know is that every donation entrusted to this fund will be there to help children.
Whether you give £10, £25, £100, £500 or something completely different, you become part of what happens next.
You may never meet the child you help.
But somewhere in the world, a child may have a better day, a better opportunity or a better future because you chose to care.
My pilgrimage is self-funded.
No donations are used for my flights, hotels, meals or personal expenses.
100% of the fund is reserved for helping children and children’s projects encountered through the pilgrimage.
Thank you for walking a small part of this journey with me.
Michelle
