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We are taking part in ‘Rafiki Relay for Education – Cairo to Cape Town’ and would love your support to help us achieve our goal! We aim to run, cycle, walk or swim every week for 6 weeks, and therefore contribute towards the total of a whopping 13,222km collective challenge!

The challenge starts ‘in Cairo’ on the 26^th April!

We are doing this because we really believe in this charity’s cause and want to help them raise money to continue their wonderful work.

Rafiki Thabo’s vision is that young people, including those living with disabilities, will be empowered through education to enable them to reach their full potential and initiate positive change in their communities. They help children who could otherwise not afford to get an education, by paying their school fees. In Kenya, Uganda and Lesotho where Rafiki Thabo have their programmes, even attending normal secondary school means insurmountable school fees, and being away at school would mean that the children cannot work to help put food on the table. The result is that the children are often made to stay at home. Girls are married off too young, and the poverty cycle continues. 8 out of 10 children in Uganda will never go to
secondary school! This is because 63% of their population live on less than £1.50 per day (£550 per year), yet the cost of the average secondary school is £322 per year and for a year at university £840 per year.

Rafiki Thabo also raise money for nutritious school meals for the very poorest at their link schools, who would otherwise go hungry, and support education infrastructure. Such as building dormitories to keep the children safe at school instead of embarking on the long and hazardous walk to their remote villages every day.

We would love it if you would consider sponsoring our challenge and help us raise money to enable Rafiki Thabo to empower more children through education!

Take a look at https://events.rafiki-foundation.org.uk/relay
and learn more about the relay challenge and the impact your sponsorship can have!

Follow us here as we will post updates, @SibfordJS and also look up @RafikiThabo / @rafikithabofoundation on social media where they will share our progress as we make our may through the African continent!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!

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