A Thames Ditton woman will cycle 470km from Vietnam to Cambodia to raise money to clear landmines.
Lesley Craen, 43, who has just completed her MBA, will undertake the five-day challenge at the end of February, with her friend Liv Abreu.
She aims to raise £6,000 for the charity Mines Advisory Group, which helps clear the remnants of conflict to help remove the threat of death and injury to communities affected.
Ms Craen said: “It is an important cause to me as it effects so many innocent people who are left as amputees and who experience so much suffering.
“I think it is our responsibility as a developed society to help deprived countries so they have the power to resolve issues themselves.”
From 2001 to present, nearly 5,000 Cambodian men, women and children have been reported as maimed or killed, as a result of weapons left behind from war.
To donate visit justgiving.com/LesleyandLiz.
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