On this page you will read of great courage, fortitude, faith, creativity and inventiveness. You shall read of how our Gesar Charactors have rowed across oceans single handed, captained paper boats, planted our Gesar Flag on both the North and South Poles, made an orchestra from an old piano....and more!

These are great statements from great people who set an example to others that all is possible, that we can use our life to encourage and benefit others. All their deeds indicate that Gesar is everywhere and there is no place that Gesar cannot appear.

Children always enjoy great fun, adventure and laughter and this is what we look for from our Gesar charactors of self achievement.

Humour and human spirit as a tool to serve our children

We can think of no happier way, apart from children helping children, to keep pens and paper flowing in far off lands and schools, or shelter kept over the heads of the poorest of the worlds children, than through activities that truly make our children laugh.

If there is something that is fun or courageous you have always wanted to do, then this is your chance to turn it into a Gesar fund raiser.

Be a Gesar children's hero

It is really very easy to join our list of Gesar characters. Send us your intentions for the future or details of past achievements and we will post them on site, making you an automatic member of a unique and inspirational group of the most exciting individuals on planet earth. All events should be safe and in some way an inspiration to children. 

Be inspired by the active

We are delighted to announce that Tim Fitzhigham is our very first member to join our list of Gesar charactors, following a chat to Dorje on a night out with friends. Tim has a wonderful history, apart from being a TV presenter he has strung out the worlds longest washing line, blown up an air ballon using lung power and rowed one hundred and sixty miles along the Thames River in London using a paper boat. Tim's theme is always great fun, he adores doing unusual things. Check out his web site @ www.timfitzhigham.com and see if any of his hilarious fun filled antics inspire you to do something in a similar mode. If they do, then let us know immediately so we may record the event. Please remember in your enthusiasm to get yourself sponsored. Our battle cry is 'Our children need you!'  

                                

Above is a picture of Tim Fitzhigham in black and white and a colour shot of Tim with his paper boat in which he rowed one hundred and sixty miles.

                                                 

We also welcome the explorer Rima Chai into our Gesar list of children's champions. Rima is an extraordinary woman who under took the arduous trek to the North Pole in May 2008 after pulling her sledge across the ice lands as she walks relentlessly toward her goal.

Rima is a complete example to the young, she is fit,enthusiastic, determined, hard working, adventurous and compassionate. 

The feats of this delightful person take some believing.

In training for her expeditions she will walk for forty miles at a time, dragging behind her a car tyre to simulate the sledge she dragged for so many miles to the South Pole, she will cover a distance of forty miles in less than twelve hours. Insidently Rima also climbs ice walls

The epic journey of Rima Chai did not come to an end when she reached the North Pole as in future she plans many more expeditions and marathons across the world. Indeed she has just completed the Singapore marathon and is currently preparing for the London marathon when she will run to raise funds for the children's charity for the partially sighted LOOK

In between trips Rima has found time to record the Gesar children's Anthem Wish Fulfilling Tree. This may be her greatest act of courage as Rima has no background as a singer and recorded her version only because we at Gesar requested her to do so. As I said, Rima has enormous courage.

Thank you Rima

                  

Above are pictured Rima with our Dorje when both spent the day in the recording studio and Pawo with the Baroness Isabella Baronovska, three of Rima's greatest admirers. 

Rima's website is @ http://www.gfiexpeditions.com/En/Main.htm make a visit and let her bravery and adventurous spirit be a complete example to us all as we make our way through life, even though we, unlike Rima, may never meet a Pola Bear.

                           

                           

The pictures above show Rima with a fellow traveller and a group of children who all wanted to play their part in promoting the Gesar Foundation.

                                                     

Following the success of her epic journey to the North Pole, Rima met up and trained with Tess Burrows, who is our next Gesar hero charactor.

Tess is a grandmother and has recently returned from the South Pole after having reached her goal with the Southern Lights Race Team.

Tess and the team took along with them the Gesar Foundation flag and plant it firmly in the ice, just as Rima had done months earlier on the North Pole.

Thank you Tess. We thank you for your kindness and wish you every success in future. May you inspire many people of all ages with your undoubted courage and bravery.

Tess Burrows is the author of a top selling book titled Cry From The Highest Mountain published by eye books isbn 978-1 903070-57-4

We will keep all informed of the next adventure of Tess. Follow the link for the Southern Lights Race team www.teamsouthernlights.org 

                   

The picture above shows Tess Burrows at the South Pole with the Gesar Foundation flag.

Now. Who is next?

                                         

How about the example of adventure and endurance set in 1984 by our great friend Hugh king Fretts. It was indeed over two decades ago when Hugh took on the might of the ocean as he set out to row his thirty foot boat 'Hulu' from Tenerife to the West Indies, a staggering distance of two thousand six hundred miles.

This epic journey took Hugh exactly one hundred days and ended with him having to swim the final few hundred yards due to a giant wave sweeping him overboard into the treacherous surf. What made this loan voyage extra difficult was the fact that Hugh decided to use no modern communications equipment to help him along the way. He was totally reliant on his own ability to come through extreme conditions. In fact, all he carried in the way of equipment was a sextant for directions.

                      

The picture above shows Hugh at the oars during his epic journey across the Atlantic ocean in 1984

Of course it is not advisable for anyone of us to simply decide that we will row across thousands of miles of ocean without thought of our ability to come through exhausting and potentially fatal adversities but what Hugh did was to leave us with valuable and highly motivational thoughts of what we may do with our lives. What inspiration is there in doing nothing when the world is there at our feet?

We can use Hugh's epic story to ask a question of whether we are going to be courageous and face adversities during our lives with the same depth of indomitable character and spirit that saw our friend Hugh through to the distant shores he set his sites upon. Let Hugh and his time on board Hulu be an inspiration to all who look for strength and reason to carry on with their best foot forward.

It is wonderful Hugh, for you to be a friend to our children. We all welcome you and wish you happy farming for many years to come. if Hugh ever has the time he may one day write about his adventures when traveling the world in a jeep, this adventure even took him through the Kyber Pass (which is a story in itself)and into Afganistan and beyond. 

                                       

It was a wonderful day when we met the great inventer Paul Harrison in Brighton England. Well know for his art works that can be seen forming shop fronts and businesses in Sussex England. Paul has developed the x piano orchestra. It is called x piano because he built it from the workings of an old upright piano that would, if Paul had not saved it, gone to scrap, never to be seen again.

How Paul has managed to get all the sounds of a multiple piece orchestra from his old piano is a complete mystery to me. It is the most fantastic art piece in its own right. Visually it is beautiful. Sound wise it is stunning and overall it is remarkable.

Paul like all our Gesar characters, is a very special individual in as much as he, like the others, follows a vision through to its end. He saw a potential in his mind for an x piano orchestra and he followed it up despite the hurdles and obstacles he may be confronted with.

This makes Paul a fine example to the young. We wish Paul every success with his projects in future and look forward to his hopeful visit one day, to our Holsworthy and Tapeley Park homes.

Below we can csee the art work of Paul Harrison displayed on his invention, the x piano orchestra. It is beautiful.

                                     

Below is a picture of Paul Harrison with the x piano orchestra

                                    

Below we see a picture of the vihicle Paul uses for his business and to transport his x piano orchestra from one venue to the next.

                                    

Below is a link to Paul's web site. I recommend a visit.

Thank you Paul and welcome to Our Gesar characters list. You are an inspiration.

http://www.myspace.com/xpianobrighton

 

                                      

Charles Craddock is seventy Eight years old and lost the use of his legs several years ago but still he parachute jumps for charity. Pawo met Charles in Devon England and the two men are best friends.

                

How wonderful to meet a man who never complains but is always able to support children's charities in his own town of Paignton. Welcome to the Gesar Foundation of charactors Charles...You are a good man.

                                   

 

Welcome Roy Bailey

Roy is a man in his seventies who has lived all his life in the Bristol area of South West England. He can be seen every weekend on one sports park or another (somewhere in the region) supporting youth sport. Roy is a fine example to all of us, always cheerful, he is a mine of information, knowing the league tables, who is doing well and who is struggling. Their is no doubt that local youth sport benefits greatly from the presence and committed enthusiasm of this fine man.

How is Roy a Gesar charactor?

Everyday, mid summer or deep winter, Roy swims in a local lake, river or in the Bristol Chanel. It all began some years ago when he was employed as a sales representative for a South West based company. Kept waiting one day for an order to be compiled, he decided to take a stroll and came across several winter swimmers who invited him into the water to test the temperature. With his usual high spirit, Roy accepted and has never looked back.

          

Above we see pictured Roy looking at the camera that we could not get to work properly and a back view of Roy at one of the many youth soccer matches he supports across the region.

The secret

To never swim alone and to start in the summer when the water is warm and follow the degrees down daily with a regular dip.

The next generation

Roy has a son Mark, and a grandson Chris, both are ardent supporters and participants of sport. Are they to be the next generation of all year round swimmers?

Long may it continue

Welcome to Gesar charactors Roy and long may you be swimming, both winter and summer. It is a pleasure to have you onboard as yet another charactor who supports children in a meaningful way.

Who is next to join these fine people, everyone of them a joy to know and spend time with? Is it you?

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