Haemophilia is a reasonably rare inherited blood disorder that prevents a sufferer’s blood from clotting properly, resulting in severe pain, disability and even death. Globally, it affects one in 10,000 people. 

Difficult enough to manage in a developed country, haemophilia takes on another perspective when the sufferer lives in a country with limited supports. Save One Life is a US based nonprofit organisation that offers sponsorship directly to individual children and youth with bleeding disorders in thirteen developing countries. Funds are used to help with transportation, pain management, food and education. Sponsorship costs around €20 per month. 

Today more than 400 sponsors around the world share the same belief, compassion and resources with more than 1200 sponsored families. 

In order to raise funds and awareness, in April this year, Save One Life board member and mountaineer Chris Bombardier from Denver Colorado, who himself has severe haemophilia B, will take on his sixth and most ambitious of the seven summits, Mount Everest. 

He will be the first person with haemophilia to climb the Mount Everest and soon the first person with haemophilia to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. This year's funds raised by his climb will be used to assist families with haemophilia in Nepal, who are still recovering from the devastating earthquakes that took place in the spring of 2015. 

Anyone whe would like to find out more, or to support the project, can check out the website: www.saveonelife.net

Image: Chris Bombardier infusing at 17,500ft on Mt. Aconcagua in 2013. Taken from the Save One Life website.