I am going to be apart of a team of 50 cyclists which aim to raise £55,000 to support the work of the African Children’s Fund and their Kenyan Schools Programme. To do this, we are organising a challenging charity bike ride of around 250 miles over three days from Calais to Reims.

Your donations will go towards helping six schools which are located just outside Thika, a town about 60km outside of Nairobi in Kenya. The town itself is bustling and there is clearly opportunity for people if they have a decent start in life. However, with many of the parents working all hours on the farms in the countryside they often need the children at home, regardless of age, to help picking coffee beans or tending the land. Most families only have the land to survive and have the most basic of provisions – a hut to shelter in and a scarce amount of food. The schools themselves and the teachers are funded by the government, but no meals are provided and often clothes are donated, and books are handed down.

This is the estimate on how we are looking to split the money raised:

Description &  estimated cost

Porridge for the year for each school £9,000

Sanitation towels for the year for each school and bins £1,000

Bore holes for 5 schools £12,500

Male and female toilet blocks for each school £25,000

Sports equipment for each school £4,000

Contingency £3,500

Please see the African Childrens Fund website for more
details on this charity: https://www.africanchildrensfund.org/

Any donation you will give will very much appreciated.

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