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On September 6th, I will be setting out on my challenge to cycle the entire length of Britain, a total of 969 miles. My journey will begin at Lands End and finish in John O’Groats 9 days later. 

Why am I doing this? Although a massive challenge I am doing it for a great cause through the Vodafone Foundation for their Lesotho Challenge which gives all 41,000 children living with HIV access to treatment within the next 3 years.

Lesotho, in southern Africa, is a country facing an HIV / AIDS challenge and where there are currently 80,000 adults receiving antiretroviral drugs, there are only 4,000 children, despite ARVs being available through globally funded programmes. The Vodafone Foundation wants all 41,000 children living with HIV to have access to treatment by 2017.  
The Vodafone Foundation is working with in-country partners to increase the number of children accessing treatment and the first step is to get the children to clinics. Via M-pesa, sending money via the network has become a reality. Our technology will enable children to receive their bus fare to ensure they can attend treatment. It will cost the equivalent of just $65 per child to access treatment over the 3 years of the programme.  We need to raise $8 million to reach our 2017 target and the challenge for Vodafone employees is to raise $1 million of that.

For more information on Ride Across Britain visit- http://www.rideacrossbritain.com/

For more information on The Vodafone Foundation and the work they do visit- http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/foundation.html

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