Hey, thank you for taking the time to visit my page. Basically, this April me and a team of 19 others are each cycling approximately 2000km/1200miles from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, in aid of a host of children’s charities in Vietnam.

I’ve personally never done anything like this and haven’t ridden a push bike more than 12 miles in one day in my life, so the whole thing is very exciting and rather terrifying. It’s a quite a big deal to me to achieve this and it’s very important to me to spend my effort/time actually doing something good for people for a change. If you would be so generous as to make the smallest of donations I would be extremely grateful for your support. It would be a huge motivating factor in my preparing for the ride and attempting to complete it. Even if it you can spare just £2 – it all adds up – it really would mean so much to me.

We self-fund our all our own costs (food, accommodation, etc.), so every penny/cent raised goes directly to the charities.

You can find our website (http://www.h2hcharityride.org) and our blog (http://www.h2hrfvc.blogspot.com) online.

Here is some information about the charities: 

Our main partner this year is Saigon Children's Charity. The SCC aims to help disadvantaged children in Vietnam to reach their full potential through receiving a quality education relevant to their needs. The SCC is distinguished for giving scholarships, building schools, running a vocational school in Saigon and working with other, smaller organizations that focus on children with disabilities. They enable over 3,000 children to go to school everyday in Vietnam! Its area of operation is in the south of Vietnam, around HCMC, the Mekong Delta and extending to the Cambodian border.

Some of the money raised goes to The ILA Community Network (ILACN), a group of volunteers within the well-established ESL institution, ILA, aims to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged children in the local communities in which ILA operates. The ILACN sends its donations to The Green Bamboo Shelter (ex-street boys aged 7 – 18), Go Vap Orphanage (200+ orphaned children, mainly disabled), The Ung Buou Cancer Hospital (Children’s ward, upwards of 150 in-patients), The Little Rose Warm Shelter (vulnerable girls, aged 11 – 18) and the Bung Sang Blind Shelter. ILACN supports the centers through regular fun days and trips out, teaching English, funding essential equipment, improvements and repairs, projects that improve the environments and prospects of disadvantaged children, enabling access to education and vocational training, raise awareness both in Vietnam and overseas. You can find them online at http://www.facebook.com/ILACommunityNetwork

 

Thanks again for taking the time to visit my page,
Rob
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