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 ”Bike to the Future” is a sponsored cycle expedition around the globe. The aim is to raise both funds and awareness for good causes through sponsored challenges and fundraising events. The project will also engage with local charity projects I come across on my journey, and stop to work with them where possible. I will document the journey through a blog and video diary, in a hope to inspire action and promote awareness of the causes.

SolarAid confronts humanity’s greatest challenges – climate change and poverty – by harnessing humanity’s greatest resource, the extraordinary power of the sun.

98% of off-grid rural Africa remains enslaved to the kerosene lamp for lighting. Kerosene isbrutally expensive, consuming an average of 20% of household income for lighting alone – and it’s also highly dangerous, toxic to inhale when it burns, and accounts for more deaths around the world than malaria.

Founded by the solar industry in 2006, SolarAid delivers affordable solar energy to Africa’s poorest off-grid communities to replace kerosene lighting. The organisational mantra is very much a ‘hand up’ not a ‘hand out’, with business solutions playing a fundamental role in its approach. Along with the social enterprise vehicle, SunnyMoney, the organisation has made huge strides with catalysing the local market for solar across four countries – Kenya,

Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. To date, over 100,000 SunnyMoney solar lights shine in homes, schools and clinics in these countries.

But the charity has huge ambitions. It has recently announced its audacious goal of eradicating kerosene lights from Africa altogether by 2020 - so it needs all the help it can get.

To join SolarAid in its mission, or to simply find out more, visit: www. solar-aid.org

On the Road:

I am currently researching and contacting charities and projects on my route that I hope to get the chance to visit and offer help where possible. If you would like to recommend a charity, or are a charity and would like to work with me please get in touch.

 

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So please dig deep and donate now.

 

 

 

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

So please dig deep and donate now.