Friends,
Beginning in January I will be riding 7265 miles from Khartoum to
Cape Town. My hope is to raise a dollar for each mile I will travel
for a great local children's program in Cape Town: The Manenberg
Afterschool Development Centre. Please consider supporting them-- and
helping me reach my goal of raising $7265 for 7265 miles!
Like any good fundraiser, I've got a few incentive programs to
encourage donations. Lots of details about those, about the wonderful
Manenberg Afterschool program and the ride are below.
The Manenberg Afterschool Development Centre:
The Centre does wonderful work providing after school care and
programming for children in Cape Town's Manenberg area and nearby
townships. One of its leaders is a personal friend and I feel very
lucky to be helping to fundraise for the program.
This is their facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/manenbergafterschool.developmentcentre?fref=ts
And some articles writtern about them (related to funding they
receive from the Amy Biehl foundation):
http://www.amybiehl.co.za/latest-news/manenberg-centre-press-release/
http://wecanchange.co.za/Editors/Articles/tabid/55/itemid/53/amid/376/new-afterschool-centre-in-manenberg.aspx
The Khartoum to Cape Town ride:
As some of you know, this trip has been a 'dream deferred' for me. I
was planning to ride in 2011, then this wild thing called 'health
reform' came along and kept my hands full for awhile. But, three years
later, now its time to go!
My trip begins on January 10th in Kartoum and ends May 10th in Cape
Town. We will be riding almost the full length of Africa (no Egypt
this year), just about 7,265 miles or about 70 miles each day we are
on our bikes.
I will be traveling with the Tour d'Afrique. They will kindly take
care of transporting our stuff and feeding me, so that I can focus on
pedaling, and then pedaling some more, and then pedaling some more...
http://tourdafrique.com/tour-overview/?t=tour-dafrique#/?t=tour-dafrique
Sweeting the deal!
$7265 is quite a bit of money to raise! So an incentive for the most
generous among you: If you're very generous and a little OCD, please
consider a 'penny per mile' donation ($72.65). And anyone donating at
this level will receive a postcard from me from every country I travel
though. Subject somewhat to the vagueries of various African postal
systems, you'll receive old-timey hand written postcards (and stamps!)
from Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana,
Namibia and South Africa!
Or, alternatively, consider a $25 donation and I will be glad to drop
you a post card from any of the countries I pedal through!
