Sharanjit Kaur is fundraising for Action for Children in Conflict (AFPIC)

Action for Children in Conflict

40km Cycling Challenge

on 10/10/2009

Streetkids in Kenya

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Team members:

Sharan Kaur, Natasha Nair, Sophie Donnellan, Anushka Asthana

Raising money for

Action for Children in Conflict (AFPIC)

Charity Registration No. 1060894

Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) works to transform the lives of children affected by extreme poverty, hunger, illness, persecution, abuse, & neglect. Our projects focus on helping some of the most vulnerable children & young people in Thika District, Kenya. The children & families we work with come from backgrounds of abject poverty, family breakdown, abandonment, & abuse. They are often forced to live on the streets, working & begging, in conflict with local residents & the police. Many resort to substance abuse as a means of escaping cold & hunger. We believe that these children have the capacity & desire to transform their lives, & AfCiC operates several programmes designed to help them do so:

Outreach Programmes for Vulnerable Children prevent children from ever going to the street & rehabilitate those who are already there. Some projects include school drop out prevention, child sponsorship, microfinance & business assistance, outreach clinics for street children, & after school children’s clubs.

A residential Interim Care Centre for street children, carrying out non-formal education, rehabilitation, counselling & family reintegration work.

Kenyan Children’s Legal Aid Work provides free legal advice to children & their guardians.

School Feeding programmes feed 1000 vulnerable children daily.

Holiday clubs Keep 400 vulnerable children away from abuse/exploitation on the streets by providing food & activities during school holidays

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Sharanjit Kaur

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Raised: 112%

Target: £700.00
Raised so far: £784.00

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My story

Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page to raise money for Action for Children in Conflict (Afcic).

We will be cycling 40km in Buckinghamshire. As cycling novices this will be a challenge for us!

What brings all us novices together is that we'd like to do something to get you to dig in your pockets and help AFCiC in Kenya, a really inspirational charity with an even more inspirational and dedicated director in our friend Eleanor.

It's been a tough year in Kenya with food crops lost and prices increasing as well as the death of one of the charities supported children just at a turning point in his life. We would love to make sure this doesn't happen again and do everything possible to generate more funds to enable more children and families to benefit from the work Eleanor does to support education and development of sustainable livlihoods for the poorest families in the Thika community. Above all to ensure as few children as possible suffer as a result of the hardship faced by many in Kenya today.

Your donation can make a big difference to the lives of these kids.

£5 would buy art materials for a creative therapy kit
£7 would buy a food package for a family
£10 would provide a child with a school uniform
£15 would buy a desk for a school (children have to pay for their own desk in the most poor schools)
£20 would give a child in our interim care centre 3 meals every day for a month

To read more about the work that Afcic does please visit

http://www.actionchildren.org/

Training updates

Sophie - Hasn't ridden a bike in 7 years and even then it was a challenge, has decided stabilisers might be necessary..
Sharan - Occasionally rides the pretend bikes at the gym. Went cycling last week and fell off at high speed on a hill! Still needs to find out where to hire one from.

Go on - we'll post photos of us in our helmets and bruises after we've finished.

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.

	Well done Sharan! Donation by manjit sehmi 21/11/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Donation by Alastair Hopwood 17/11/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Sandeep Jhitta 05/11/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	£20 of this is from Nanny Nair and £10 is the bet payment I owe to Nushk for cycling up a massive hill (that was in the wrong direction!) Donation by Tash 24/10/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Well done! I hope the sore is gone by now. Keep on with the good work! Till Donation by Till Rebernik 22/10/09	£40.00
	Well done! Donation by Catherine McPhee 19/10/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	good luck guys! Donation by ritchie 'physio' 15/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Well done Tash! Donation by CLAIRE WOODHEAD 14/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well done, Sharan! Hope you're resting your weary limbs now... Donation by Jane Patterson 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck Sophie. Keep peddling! x Donation by Lisa Cooper 11/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Have fun and carry a pump. Donation by Neil Clifford 10/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck Sophie! Donation by Sue Robinson 09/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck, Soph! Very impressed - will be thinking of you and wishing you good weather. Sxx Donation by Sarah Khan 09/10/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Godd luck Sophie! Donation by Alison Furzer 09/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	have fun everyone, Tash get that puncture fixed! Donation by JANE WOLSTENHOLME 09/10/09
	Hi Sophie, Wish you the best and thanks for giving me that opportunity to support this project Donation by Chike Okocha 09/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	This is from Julian - my technically inept mate. Donation by Anushka Asthana 08/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	This is really from Robin, my wee Scottish friend. Donation by Anushka Asthana 08/10/09	£12.00 + £3.38 Gift Aid
	Best of luck Sharan! Donation by Jasper Noriel 08/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by James Doward 07/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	good luck girls! fingers crossed for sunshine xxx Donation by Nicola Schwartz 06/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	good luck anushka Donation by rajeev syal 06/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	good luck anushka, the newsroom is with you all the way.... Donation by mark townsend 06/10/09	£12.00 + £3.38 Gift Aid
	Good luck guys x Donation by Abigail Johnson 06/10/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	Good luck everyone. Tash - you'd better fix that puncture soon! Donation by Andrew Mold 06/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck! Donation by Chris. 05/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	All the best. Donation by Adetunji Odeneye 05/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Sharan, you can only collect if you finish all 40km ! Donation by Andy Cook 05/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Hey sharan, good luck and make sure you hire a bike with a padded seat! T x Donation by Tarifa 01/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Good luck! Donation by Nimar Sehmi 30/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£639.00
Offline donations:	£145.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£168.95

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